Transaction rollback and web services

Question

Given an example of calling two web services methods from a session bean, what if an exception is thrown between the calls to two methods? In the case of not calling the web

Answer 1

Actually, you usually don't just need a custom rollback method but also a custom commit method. Otherwise, you get into problems like those found in the WS-BA standard.

Just check out http://www.atomikos.com/Publications/TryCancelConfirm for a detailed article. The features mentioned there are available in Atomikos ExtremeTransactions... That product also supports classical 'ACID' style web service transactions.

HTH

Guy

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