Chapter 4. Transaction Recovery
4.1. Failure recovery
During recovery, the Transaction Manager needs the ability to communicate to all resource managers that are in use by the applications in the system. For each resource manager, the Transaction Manager uses the
XAResource.recover method to retrieve the list of transactions currently in a prepared or heuristically completed state. Typically, the system administrator configures all transactional resource factories that are used by the applications deployed on the system. The JDBC XADataSource object, for example, is a factory for the JDBC XAConnection objects.
Because
XAResource objects are not persistent across system failures, the Transaction Manager needs the ability to acquire the XAResource objects that represent the resource managers which might have participated in the transactions prior to a system failure. For example, a Transaction Manager might use the JNDI look-up mechanism to acquire a connection from each of the transactional resource factories, and then obtain the corresponding XAResource object for each connection. The Transaction Manager then invokes the XAResource.recover method to ask each resource manager to return the transactions that are currently in a prepared or heuristically completed state.
Note
When running XA recovery, you must tell JBoss Transaction Service which types of Xid it can recover. Each Xid that JBoss Transaction Service creates has a unique node identifier encoded within it, and JBoss Transaction Service only recovers transactions and states that match the requested node identifier. The node identifier to use should be provided to JBoss Transaction Service in a property that starts with the name com.arjuna.ats.jta.xaRecoveryNode. Multiple values are allowed. A value of
* forces recovery, and possibly rollback, of all transactions, regardless of their node identifier. Use it with caution.
If the JBossJTA JDBC 2.0 driver is in use, JBossJTA manages all
XAResource crash recovery automatically. Otherwise one, of the following recovery mechanisms is used:
- If the
XAResourceis able to be serialized, then the serialized form will be saved during transaction commitment, and used during recovery. The recreatedXAResourceis assumed to be valid and able to drive recovery on the associated database. - The
com.arjuna.ats.jta.recovery.XAResourceRecovery,com.arjuna.ats.jta.recovery.XARecoveryResourceManagerandcom.arjuna.ats.jta.recovery.XARecoveryResourceinterfaces are used. Refer to the JDBC chapters on failure recovery for more information.
