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Summary of Transactions

The following tables summarize the support of each type of activity in each type of transaction.

Table 18 summarizes the JDBC transaction type.

Table 18 JDBC transaction type

Activity Type	Participate in JDBC Transaction Type?
JDBC activities	Yes
TIBCO iProcess BusinessWorks Connector activities	Yes
JMS activities	No
ActiveEnterprise Adapter activities (using the JMS transport)	No
EJB activities	No

Table 19 summarizes the XA transaction type.

Table 19 XA transaction type

Activity Type	Participate in XA Transaction Type?
Checkpoint (specified by the Include Checkpoint field of the transaction group)	Yes, when a database is used to store checkpoint data, and the JDBC Connection is configured to use the XA connection type.
JDBC activities	Yes, when the JDBC Connection is configured to use the XA connection type.
TIBCO iProcess BusinessWorks Connector activities	Yes, when an XA connection is used.
JMS activities1	Yes, when JMS is configured to use an XA connection
ActiveEnterprise Adapter activities (using the JMS transport)1.	Yes, when JMS is configured to use an XA connection
EJB activities	No

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Request/Reply operations (such as JMS Topic Requestor and JMS Queue Requestor) are not permitted in transactions. Process starters and Wait For... activities cannot be part of an XA Transaction group, but their acknowledge message can participate in the transaction, if the resource is configured to use the Transactional acknowledge mode and the resource is listed in the Include in Transaction field of the transaction group. However, the acknowledge message for Wait for JMS Topic Message activities cannot be part of the transaction.

Table 20 summarizes the JTA UserTransaction type.

Table 20 JTA UserTransaction type

Activity Type	Participate in JTA Transaction Type With the Following Application Server?
	BEA	IBM	JBoss
Checkpoint (specified by the Include Checkpoint field of the transaction group)	Yes, when database used to store checkpoint data, and the JDBC Connection is configured to use the JNDI connection type.	Not supported	Not supported
JDBC activities	Yes, when the JDBC Connection is configured to use the JNDI connection type.	Not supported	Not supported
JMS activities1	No, when using TIBCO Enterprise Messaging Service. Yes, when using BEA JMS server.	Not supported	Not supported
ActiveEnterprise Adapter activities (using the JMS transport)1.	No, when using TIBCO Enterprise Messaging Service. Yes, when using BEA JMS server.	Not supported	Not supported
EJB activities	Yes	Yes	Yes

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Request/Reply operations (such as JMS Topic Requestor and JMS Queue Requestor) are not permitted in transactions. Process starters and Wait For... activities cannot be part of a JTA UserTransaction group.

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