JBoss logo


print this page
email this page

JBoss Transaction Service (JBossTS) assures complete, accurate business transactions for any Java based applications, including those written for the Java EE and EJB frameworks.

JBossTS is a 100% Java implementation of a distributed transaction management system based on the Sun Microsystems Java EE Java Transaction Service (JTS) standard. Our implementation of the JTS utilizes the Object Management Group's (OMG) Object Transaction Service (OTS) model for transaction interoperability as recommended in the Java EE and EJB standards. Although any JTS-compliant product will allow Java objects to participate in transactions, one of the key features of JBossTS is it's 100% Java implementation. This allows JBossTS to support fully distributed transactions that can be coordinated by distributed parties.

JBossTS runs can be run both as an embedded distributed service of an application server (e.g. JBossAS), affording the user all the added benefits of the application server environment such as real-time load balancing, unlimited linear scalability and unmatched fault tolerance that allows you to deliver an always-on solution to your customers. It is also available as a free-standing Java Transaction Service.

In addition to providing full compliance with the latest version of the JTS specification, JBossTS leads the market in providing many advanced features such as fully distributed transactions and ORB portability with POA support.

JBossTS works on a number of operating systems including Red Hat linux, Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows XP. It requires a Java 5 or later environment.

The Java Transaction API support for JBossTS comes in two flavours:

  • a purely local implementation, that does not require an ORB, but obviously requires all coordinated resources to reside within the same JVM.
  • a fully distributed implementation.
Key features
  • full compliant with the JTA 1.1 specification:
    • Purely local (ORB-less) JTA offers the fastest JTA performance
    • JDBC 3 support
    • XA compliance
    • JDBC drivers for database access with full transaction support
    • Automatic crash recovery for XAResources
  • compliance with the JTS specification and OTS 1.2 specification from the OMG
    • Distributed JTA implementation
    • support for distributed transactions (utilizing two-phase commit)
    • POA ORB support
    • interposition
    • transaction heuristics
    • distributed transaction manager (co-located with the transaction initiator) or transaction manager server
    • checked/unchecked transaction behaviour
    • supports both flat and nested transaction models, with nested-aware resources and resource adapters
    • independent concurrency control system with support for type-specific concurrency control
    • support for CosTransaction::Current
    • direct and indirect transaction management
    • synchronization interface
    • explicit and implicit transaction context propagation
    • automatic crash recovery
    • multi-thread aware
  • transactional objects (TO) for Java
  • ORB independence via the ORB portability layer

Copyright 2002-2005 Arjuna Technologies. Copyright 2008 JBoss, a division of Red Hat. All Rights Reserved.