Foreign JMS and Enlisting Transactions?

Question

I'm working on implementing an XA interface layer to an implementation of a foreign JMS provider and am having a problem with enlisting XA transactions in WebLogic.
          I implemented a simple JNDI that stores and retrieves serialized versions of classes in the local filesystem.
          I create an XATopicConnectionFactory named ambxatcf and a Topic named ChatterTopic and store them in there.
          The XATopicConnection implements XAConnection.
          I put a client jar in bea/weblogic91/samples/domains/wl_server/lib/ which contains the JNDI code and all of my XA classes which call the JMS.
          That gets picked up by the server on startup.
          In the Web Logic Admin Console:
          I create a Foreign Server under JMS Modules, ambrosiaServer.
          I set the JNDI Initial Context Factory set to my JNDI InitialContext class and the JNDI Properties is the path to my JNDI filestore so that it can find the serialized objects.
          I create a Foreign Destination in this server which has a Local JNDI Name: Chatter and Remote JNDI Name: ChatterTopic
          And then also in this server, I create a Foreign Connection Factory, Local JNDI Name: ambxatcf and Remote JNDI Name: XATopicConnectionFactory.
          Then in Deployments, I Install the jar containing my bean and Start it.
          Then I run the client and the bean prints out the XATopicConnectionFactory and it's the one that came out my JNDI.
          I have messages in my XATopicConnectionFactory, XATopicConnection and XATopicSession code so I know they're getting called.
          What's not getting called is XATopicSession.getXAResource() or my XAResourceImpl.start() or XAResourceImpl.commit().
          This happens whether I have the bean set up for bean managed or container managed transactions.
          I'm testing against WebLogic 9.1.
          Thanks,
          Don Hermes

Answer 1

Hi Tom,
          Thank you for your response.
          I saw the article in the 8.1 documentation but I also found the following in the 9.1 docs.
          So, I assumed it would work.
          Was that assumption wrong?
          Thanks,
          Don
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          http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs91/jms/j2ee.html
          Automatically Enlisting Transactions
          This feature works for either WebLogic JMS implementations or for third-party JMS providers that support two-phase commit transactions (XA protocol). If a wrapped JMS connection sends or receives a message inside a transaction context, the JMS session being used to send or receive the message is automatically enlisted in the transaction through the XA capabilities of the JMS provider. This is the case whether the transaction was started implicitly because the JMS code was invoked inside an EJB with container-managed transactions enabled, or whether the transaction was started manually using the UserTransaction interface in a servlet or an EJB that supports bean-managed transactions.