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Transaction Management and the Light-Weight App Server - Pairing Atomikos with Jetty

When looking to build a web application, developers can go the traditional application server route, choosing to work with one of the large traditional app server vendors and their more costly solutions. But others prefer a more nimble approach, taking the route of a lightweight application server, which many believe provides a simpler and more streamlined way of doing development.  In this case study, we take a look at the second option, investigating the pairing of Atomikos for transaction management with Jetty, a light-weight app server from Intalio | Works. Read more.

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Java Code Geeks Blogs About Atomikos

A very nice tutorial discussion on how you can use Infinispan as a Hibernate second level cache provider. Infinispan is the successor of JBoss cache and the company's flagship towards the open source data grids domain.  The tutorial realizes the JTA environment within Spring framework and to do so, uses a JTA compliant transaction manager -- Atomikos!  Please note: this solution has not yet been verified by Atomikos. Read the blog post.

Try/Cancel/Confirm - Using Compensating Transations for Loose Coupling

As web services mature and more and more implementations start to appear, the discussions around related technologies and protocols such as security, transactions and reliability are also becoming more relevant. This article focuses on transactions for web services, and particularly on the concept of long-running transactions and the implications for web service providers. In particular, we will look at the ways in which transactions and compensation fit the business model of a web service provider, and the implications with respect to the architectural support that is needed. Read the full article.

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