JTA in Weblogic 5.1 ?

Question

          Can I use JTA and container-managed transactions with Weblogic Server 5.1 or must
          I have Weblogic 6 ?
          Thanks
          Dave
          

Answer 1

Dave,
          You do need to funnel all your SQL through one connection, but WLS 5.1 has the
          machinery to do this transparently for you, in its JTS driver - see Using the JTS
          Driver
          By 1 RM insance, I do mean 1 dbms instance.
          Dave Horner wrote:
          > Hi Peter,
          > Can I just check that to use JTA then, we must put all SQL statements for a single
          > transaction through one connection ( presumably the next transaction's statements
          > can use a new connection ) ?
          > Also, by '1 RM', do you mean a single database manager instance ?
          > Thanks
          > Dave
          >
          > Peter Holditch <[email protected]> wrote:
          > >Dave,
          > >
          > >You can use both, but your updates must all be through a single jdbc connection
          > >to 1
          > >RM instance. The WLS 5.1 infrastructure will enforce this for you, if it
          > >can, or
          > >throw an exception if it can't.
          > >
          > >WLS 6.0 is necessary for a true distributed transaction with 2pc.
          > >
          > >Regards,
          > >Peter.
          > >
          > >Dave Horner wrote:
          > >
          > >> Can I use JTA and container-managed transactions with Weblogic Server
          > >5.1 or must
          > >> I have Weblogic 6 ?
          > >> Thanks
          > >> Dave
          > >
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