Summary of Transactions

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

The following table summarizes the JDBC transaction type.

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

The following table summarizes the XA transaction type.

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

The following table summarizes the JTA UserTransaction type.

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 activities2

No, when using TIBCO Enterprise Messaging Service.

Yes, when using BEA JMS server.

Not supported

Not supported

ActiveEnterprise Adapter activities (using the JMS transport)2.

No, when using TIBCO Enterprise Messaging Service.

Yes, when using BEA JMS server.

Not supported

Not supported

EJB activities

Yes

Yes

Yes