I will have a go at answering, but no guarantees :)
On 1 Aug 2009, at 11:56, Gadbury wrote:


Hi Ian,

Thank you for the pointers.  Was I wrong to use UserTransaction?

I think (but I could be completely wrong), UserTransaction is generally a wrapper for the TransactionManager so when you create a user transaction jndi will associate the user transaction with the TransactionManager, and then the UserTransaction will proxy the remaining calls through to the TransactionManager (at least thats the case with Geronimo)

You need to bind the JCR session into the transaction, which cant be done with a UserTransaction where the wiring is within the TransactionManager impl, usually bound to the JDBC data source. So your right to use UserTransaction for JDBC/Datasource, but wrong to use it for JCR. (IIRC)

 What type
of tranasction is that in your example It looks to me like you're using
Transaction and TransactionManager interfaces from javax.transaction.

yes

How
do I get a TransactionManager instance? Can I still use JNDI or is there an
alternative (in fact, JNDI presents me a problem with unit testing as
without the web application running on the Tomcat server, the JNDI lookup
cannot get the UserTransaction instance) ?

you *should* be able to look up the transaction manager from jNDI *or* for unit testing, create a new instance of the TransactionManager. I have been using Geronimo in OSGi with Sling/Jackrabbit and its just a new GeronimoTransactionManager(defaultTransactionTimeoutSeconds); to get one (only one per transaction context)


Sorry for the silly questions.  Thanks for your time.  Regards,

James


Ian Boston wrote:

IIRC you have to bind the jcr session to the transaction. In
Jackrabbit the session is actually an XASession with a getXAResource()
method so you can bind the session with something like this.

Transaction transaction = transactionManager.getTransaction();
      if (transaction != null) {

transaction.enlistResource(((XASession)session).getXAResource());
      }


HTH
Ian

On 31 Jul 2009, at 17:26, Gadbury wrote:


Hi all,

I have finally managed to get somewhere with jotm and Tomcat 6.0
having
followed the tutorial provided in the above links.  I am finally
getting the
UserTransaction via JNDI lookup (after classloader issues and naming
exceptions) and I am testing that new
InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/UserTransaction"); is an instance
of
UserTranasction.

Unfortunately, every session.save() called in between the
utx.begin() and
utx.commit() persists changes so the UserTranasction is not having an
effect.  I was hoping that session.save() would not persist changes
in the
scope of a UserTranasction but would ensure that node UUIDs are
permanently
assigned to new nodes.  For example:

      Session session = getSession();

      // Get user transaction (for example, through JNDI)
      UserTransaction utx = (UserTransaction) new
InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/UserTransaction");

      JcrUserDao userDao = new JcrUserDao();
      JcrProductDao productDao = new JcrProductDao();

      utx.begin();

      Node newUserNode = userDao.create(aUser, session);

      session.save();

      String UUID = newUserNode.getUUID();

      Node newProductNode = productDao.create(aProduct, session);

      session.save();

      utx.commit();

If I step through the above code in debug within Eclipse, and
terminate the
Tomcat server after the first session.save() but before the
utx.commit(), I
can see that the the changes are made by the first Dao method call
userDao.create(aUser, session) are persisted.

So far I have put all the required jotm jars in %TOMCAT_HOME%/lib
from the
distribution bundle jotm 2.1.4.

My context.xml is configured with:

<Transaction factory="org.objectweb.jotm.UserTransactionFactory"/>


My carol.properties is saved in WEB-INF/Classes and is as follows:

# JNDI (Protocol Invocation)
carol.protocols=jrmp

# Local RMI Invocation
carol.jvm.rmi.local.call=true

# do not use CAROL JNDI wrapper
carol.start.jndi=false

# do not start a name server
carol.start.ns=false

# Naming Factory
carol.jndi.java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.apache.naming


Is there some further configuration required? No exceptions are being
thrown any more and the UserTransaction is retrieved via JNDI lookup
yet the
UserTranasction appears not to be functioning as expected.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for your time.
Regards,

James.



Vijay Pandey wrote:

There might be a line break and you might not be copying the full
URL. I
just checked and the URL is alive.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gadbury [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 3:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: User Managed Transactions...


Thank you Vijay, I shall take a closer look tomorrow.  By the way,
the
second
link gives me a 404.

Cheers,

James


Vijay Pandey wrote:

You might want to take a look at this


http://static.raibledesigns.com/downloads/howto-tomcat-jotm.html#5.5-config

along with this


http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-UserTransaction%2C-JOTM-and-Tomcat-5.5.x-p288894
3.html

Vijay

-----Original Message-----
From: Gadbury [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: User Managed Transactions...


Hi again all.

I have been trying to get javax.transaction.UserTransaction
working by
JNDI
lookup.  I use Eclipse Galileo and Tomcat 6.0.  I am trying trying
retreive
a UserTransaction as follows  (I have tried both):

UserTransaction utx = new
InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/UserTransaction");

UserTransaction utx = new
InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env/UserTransaction");

However, an exception is thrown stating that I must setup a system
or
environment property, or the application context.  Do I need to
configure
the resource and / or environment elements in context.xml?  For
example,
the
resource configuration:

<context>
<Resource name="UserTransaction" auth="Container"
  type="javax.transaction.UserTransaction"/>
<ResourceParams name="UserTransaction">
  <parameter>
    <name>factory</name>
    <value>org.objectweb.jotm.UserTransactionFactory</value>
  </parameter>
  <parameter>
    <name>jotm.timeout</name>
    <value>60</value>
  </parameter>
</ResourceParams>
</context>

Does Tomcat 6.0 support UserTransaction by JNDI, or do I need to use
another
technology such as JOTM or Jencks?  Ideally I wouldn't have to
install
and
configure one of the other technologies.

Thanks for reading.  Kind regards,

James
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