topic Re: Nested transactions and failure of services in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nested-transactions-and-failure-of-services/m-p/236993#M190123 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Some pointers, since I've been struggling with this myself recently. :? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can't have "nested transactions" in the sense you are asking,&nbsp; each thread only has a single active transaction context.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>However you can suspend one transaction and run another.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can "push" and "pop" transaction contexts.&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any exception is best considered fatal to your transaction,&nbsp; the decision is not yours to decide to catch and commit.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You are rolling back whether you like it or not.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So one easy improvement for your problem is to do a check for whether the space exists before creating it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then you won't be attempting to handle the FileExistsException.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:02:38 GMT mrogers 2009-06-19T23:02:38Z Nested transactions and failure of services https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nested-transactions-and-failure-of-services/m-p/236992#M190122 Hi all,I have been facing a problem with transactions at the worst moment: everything was fine but falls apart just days before the final delivery of a project based on Alfresco.Exact details would be too long so I'll just give a general picture. We are storing data into an Alfresco repository throu Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:25:18 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nested-transactions-and-failure-of-services/m-p/236992#M190122 amenel 2009-06-15T14:25:18Z Re: Nested transactions and failure of services https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nested-transactions-and-failure-of-services/m-p/236993#M190123 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Some pointers, since I've been struggling with this myself recently. :? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can't have "nested transactions" in the sense you are asking,&nbsp; each thread only has a single active transaction context.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>However you can suspend one transaction and run another.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can "push" and "pop" transaction contexts.&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any exception is best considered fatal to your transaction,&nbsp; the decision is not yours to decide to catch and commit.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You are rolling back whether you like it or not.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So one easy improvement for your problem is to do a check for whether the space exists before creating it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then you won't be attempting to handle the FileExistsException.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:02:38 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/nested-transactions-and-failure-of-services/m-p/236993#M190123 mrogers 2009-06-19T23:02:38Z