transaction question.

[Steven Colley]

Hi Foks, pleas help me on the following statement:

"If the client calls with a transaction context, the behavior is similar to REQUERIED" --> "SUPPORTS".

Right, I agree with because it keeps the same transaction and continue running normally.

My question is..why cannot i say that "mandatory" could also be a correct response in this case? Because it also keeps the same transaction and continue running normally!!!

Please advise!!!

Tks in advance! ;-)

[Steven Colley]

just fixing a typo: *REQUIRED instead of REQUERIED!

[Camilo Morales]

The difference between SUPPORTS and MANDATORY is that MANDATORY will throw an exception if it is invoked without a Tx context. Take a look at the following fragment from Mikalai Zaikin Notes for SCBCD 5.0:

MANDATORY

The container must invoke an enterprise bean method whose transaction attribute is set to MANDATORY in a client's transaction context. The client is REQUIRED to call with a transaction context.

If the client calls with a transaction context, the container performs the same steps as described in the REQUIRED case.

If the client calls without a transaction context, the container throws the javax.ejb.EJBTransactionRequiredException. If the EJB 2.1 client view is used, the container throws the javax.transaction.TransactionRequiredException exception if the client is a remote client, or the javax.ejb.TransactionRequiredLocalException if the client is a local client.

(The only two Tx types that will throw exception are NEVER and MANDATORY.)

So, you are right, according to MZ notes:

"If the client calls with a transaction context, the behavior is similar to REQUERIED" --> "SUPPORTS" AND MANDATORY.