Administration Guide

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Contents

About This Guide......................................... 5

What This Guide Contains.......................... 5

Audience................................................... 5

Prerequisites............................................... 5

Organization.............................................. 5

Documentation Conventions...................... 5

Additional Documentation......................... 6

Contacting Us............................................ 6

Administration of ArjunaTA....................... 7

Introduction............................................... 7

ObjectStore management........................... 7

ArjunaTA runtime information.................. 8

Failure recovery administration.................. 8

The Recovery Manager.............................. 8

Configuring the Recovery Manager........... 9

Periodic Recovery.................................... 12

Expired entry removal............................. 13

Errors and Exceptions.............................. 13

Selecting the JTA implementation............ 14

 

About This Guide

The Administration Guide contains information on how to administer JBoss Transactions API 4.2.2.

This guide is most relevant to engineers who are responsible for administration of JBoss Transactions API 4.2.2 installations.

In order to administer ArjunaTA it is first necessary to understand that it relies on ArjunaCore for a lot of the transaction functionality. As such, it is important to read the ArjunaCore Administration Guide before attempting to administer ArjunaTA.

This guide contains the following chapters:

�       Chapter 1, Administration of ArjunaTA: describes how to administer ArjunaTA, mainly by selecting the variant of JTA implementation: pure local or remote (allowing distributed transactions).

The following conventions are used in this guide:

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