Novell exteNd Messaging Platform 5.1

Java Transaction Service (JMS) - Release Notes

Release Contents

The Novell exteNd Messaging Platform's JTS release comes with

Transaction Manager
Reference Documentation
JTS Tutorial

Features in this Release

Novell exteNd Messaging Platform's JTS is a 100% pure Java implementation of the Java Transaction Service (JTS) based on the Java Transaction API (JTA) v1.01 and OMG Object Transaction Service (OTS) v1.2 specifications. It provides full, distributed transaction managment of CORBA and JDBC 2.0 XA aware resources. It is fully compliant with all the requirements of the above specifications.

Features include:

Implementation of OTS 1.2 specification without nested trasaction support.
Fully recoverable service.
Support for OTS compliant recoverable resources.
Support for JTA compliant resource managers, such as Informix Cloudscape 3.6, Oracle 8.1.6 or higher databases.
Support for proprietary OnePhaseResource interface to allow resource managers with only local transaction support to participate in distributed transactions.
One-phase-commit optimization.
Interposition of propagated transactions.
Presumed rollback log optimization.

Supported Platforms

Novell exteNd Messaging Platform's JTS is currently supported on Windows 2000/2003 and XP, Solaris Sparc 2.6+, Linux Red Hat 7.x/8, and NetWare 6.5. The following JDKs are supported:
JDK 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 (Java 2 Standard Edition)

Sun Win32 JDK 1.2 or higher production release

Sun Linux JDK 1.2 or higher production release

Sun Solaris JDK 1.2 or higher production release

Novell JVM 1.4.1 for NetWare

Bug Reports and Feedback

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