MDB and XA

Answer 1

          Thanks for your help Tom,
          It turns out I didn't have a transaction. Took a while to track it down...thanks
          again...
          Tom Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
          >Hi Allen,
          >
          >Your JDBC configuration looks correct, but I may be wrong. I suggest
          >posting to the JDBC newsgroup for confirmation. It might be
          >helpful if you post your MDB xml descriptors.
          >
          >Is your JDBC call embedded directly in the MDB, or does the MDB invoke
          >it through another EJB or RMI class?
          >
          >It seems like there may be no transaction even though you set required?
          >To see if the current thread is infected with a live transaction, you
          >can insert some trace code:
          >Call weblogic.transaction.TxHelper.getTransaction() to get the current
          >transaction, then call weblogic.transaction.Transaction.getStatusAsString()
          >to
          >see its status.
          >
          >
          >Tom
          >
          >Allen Miller wrote:
          >
          >> I have a transaction 'required' mdb that essentially instantiates a
          >class that
          >> does database updates. I get the exception below. It appears the database
          >operations
          >> are not running as part of the mdb's transaction.
          >>
          >> I've configured the weblogic supplied oracle xa driver and tx datasourse
          >per the
          >> doc (as I understand it). The code snippet retrieving the datasource
          >and the config.xml
          >> definitions follow the exception message below.
          >>
          >> weblogic 6.1 on win2000
          >>
          >> any ideas???
          >>
          >> SQL operations are not allowed with no global transaction by default
          >for XA drivers.
          >> If the XA driver supports performing SQL operations with no global
          >transaction,
          >> explicitly allow it by setting "SupportsLocalTransaction" JDBC connection
          >pool
          >> property to true. In this case, also remember to complete the local
          >transaction
          >> before using the connection again for global transaction, else a XAER_OUTSIDE
          >> XAException may result. To complete a local transaction, you can either
          >set auto
          >> commit to true or call Connection.commit().
          >>
          >> Context ctx = new InitialContext();
          >> javax.sql.DataSource ds = (javax.sql.DataSource)
          >ctx.lookup ("jdbc/" + "ListenPointReporterConnectionsDs");
          >> return ds.getConnection();
          >>
          >> <JDBCConnectionPool CapacityIncrement="1"
          >> DriverName="weblogic.jdbc.oci.xa.XADataSource"
          >> InitialCapacity="2" LoginDelaySeconds="1" MaxCapacity="15"
          >> Name="PlatformListenPointReporterConnections"
          >> Properties="user=allen;password=allen;dataSourceName=PlatformListenPointReporterConnections;server=alcatraz;serverName=alcatraz"
          >> ShrinkPeriodMinutes="30" ShrinkingEnabled="true"
          >> Targets="listenpointServer" TestConnectionsOnRelease="true"
          >> TestConnectionsOnReserve="true" TestTableName="LP_USER_V"/>
          >>
          >> <JDBCTxDataSource EnableTwoPhaseCommit="true"
          >> JNDIName="jdbc/ListenPointReporterConnectionsDs"
          >> Name="ListenPointReporterConnectionsDs"
          >> PoolName="PlatformListenPointReporterConnections" Targets="listenpointServer"/>
          >