topic Re: Transactions management in Alfresco Archive

Transactions management

luuzz — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:32:44 GMT

Hello,Does web service api now support transactions ? because i have an application with its own database and i need to access alfresco repository in a classic transactional way .Thank you

Re: Transactions management

mrogers — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:02:08 GMT

I think the simplest answer is no alfresco does not support distributed transactions for any of its remote interfaces.

If you are running Alfresco on a J2EE AS you should be able to re-plumb of the spring configuration to use XA drivers and JTA but you would be way out on the bleeding edge. And then SOAP and transactions are another can of worms. I'm sure its possible but suspect it won't be easy or quick.

Re: Transactions management

guypardon — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:22:29 GMT

Hi,

You can try http://www.atomikos.com - it supports all of what you are looking for I think (and more).

Best
Guy

Re: Transactions management

luuzz — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:25:16 GMT

Hello,
Thank you for the answers.
It seems that rmi jcr has the notion of transaction. Even if the jcr transaction may not be pluggable into a database one i should be able to commit or roll back a transaction manually by catching exceptions.
What do you think ?

Re: Transactions management

mrogers — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:33:30 GMT

Yes using RMI will remove one "cans of worms".

You are still, I think, heading for some hard times. Do you really need to add the complexity of distributed transactions? Most systems can manage just fine without them.

Re: Transactions management

luuzz — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:45:17 GMT

In my situation, i have some data in my own database and others in the alfresco repository.
So i think i have no choice.
What do you think ?