Transactions Section Index | Page 4
What is the Java Transaction API (JTA)?
JTA is a service-oriented API specification. Typically, we think of JTA as the service API used by application programmers to group operations into one or more logical transactions. JTA actually...more
What parties are involved in transaction processing?
There are five principals:
One or more client applications - optionally initiate client-based transactions
One or more application servers - initiate transactions on behalf of clients
The transa...more
What is the acronym ACID?
ACID represents the four properties of every transaction:
Atomicity - Either all of the operations bundled in the transaction are performed successfully or none of them are performed.
Consistency...more
What is a distributed transaction?
A distributed transaction bundles multiple operations in which at least two network hosts are involved, for example, an enterprise bean deployed under an Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) server on networ...more
What is a transaction?
A transaction is an abstraction of an atomic and reliable execution sequence.
Transaction processing is important for almost all modern computing environments that support concurrent processing. ...more
