Archive for February, 2006

JTA Does Not Equal Automatic Support of Two-Phase Commit!

Posted on February 17th, 2006 in General, Spring. 9 comments.

I find it a little bit distressing how few Java developers understand that using JTA does not automatically get you XA/Two-Phase-Commit capabilities.
Here we’ve got Matt Raible, who really should know better, or at least should not be blogging about it, posting on Two Phase Commit in Tomcat with JOTM and Spring. Somebody flew out to […]

BEA to open-source JPA (EJB3) persistence library based on Kodo

Posted on February 15th, 2006 in General. 1 comment.

This is pretty big news. Back in November, BEA acquired SolarMetric, makers of the excellent KODO JDO persistence library. I’ve always had a lot of respect for Kodo JDO, as it’s very performant, is very flexible in terms of mapping complex schemas, has excellent error messages, and comes with good tools and excellent documentation. Now […]