Technobabble

I’m Lazy, why would I want to do my own transaction management?

While its true that the ejb3 container is usually pretty smart about persisting and handling transactions, its also not as smart as a real human being and probably isn’t able to handle complex database transactions and rollbacks. This is where bean managed transactions come in. By handling your own transactions you can avoid some major pitfalls.

The first problem with Container Managed Transactions (CMT) is there’s a time limit imposed by the container (although it’s a configurable timeout). If you are performing a lengthy task and are…

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