What is the difference between JTA and a local transaction?

Question

What is the difference between JTA and a local transaction?

An example that shows when to use JTA and when to use a local transaction would be great.

Answer 1

Transaction-type should be set to "RESOURCE_LOCAL" for Java SE application and to "JTA" for Java EE application. "RESOURCE_LOCAL" may work fine on some web application deployed on Tomcat, but may cause issues when you run your application under glassfish environment.

If you are working on distributed transactions you must use "JTA" as your transaction manager.