Grey CMT/BMT Question

Scenario:
MDB is CMT with trans-attribute 'RequiresNew' subscribed to a topic. Upon receiving
a message, Invokes a stateless EJB which is CMT and has trans-attribute 'Requires'
which updates database 1. After the call to the EJB, MDB.onMessage opens a straight
JDBC connection and updates database 2. If any exception happens on the second
update it eats the exception and continues. The question is we've already have
a 2PC with the topic and database1. What we're doing with database 2 is neither
CMT nor BMT. What is the situation with respect to databse 2. We know its kind
of weird and want to re-work but the code is already freezed and just want to
make sure nothing is fatally wrong so that we could fix in the next release. If
it is fatally wrong, we want to fix it before the code is pushed to production
shortly.
thanks
Suresh

Hi Suresh,
The second update is also part of the transaction. If the second update throws
a resource exception then it will affect the commit of the CMT.
thx
vasanthi ramesh
"Suresh Vallabhaneni" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Scenario:
MDB is CMT with trans-attribute 'RequiresNew' subscribed to a topic.
Upon receiving
a message, Invokes a stateless EJB which is CMT and has trans-attribute
'Requires'
which updates database 1. After the call to the EJB, MDB.onMessage opens
a straight
JDBC connection and updates database 2. If any exception happens on the
second
update it eats the exception and continues. The question is we've already
have
a 2PC with the topic and database1. What we're doing with database 2
is neither
CMT nor BMT. What is the situation with respect to databse 2. We know
its kind
of weird and want to re-work but the code is already freezed and just
want to
make sure nothing is fatally wrong so that we could fix in the next release.
If
it is fatally wrong, we want to fix it before the code is pushed to production
shortly.
thanks
Suresh

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