Java Beat Question - persi. cntxt

[Niranjan Deshpande]

6) Which of the following statements are true about Persistence Contexts?

a. The entities managed by Extended Persistence Context won't go to the database unless they are associated with some active transaction in a J2SE environment.
b. There is no need to associate Extended Persistence Context to an active transaction.
c. In a transactional-scoped persistence context, the entities will become detached as soon as the transaction ends.
d. All the above.

The correct options are c and a. Option c is obvious. But I did not get option a. The answer explanation says -

Unless an extended persistence context is manually enlisted in a transaction, the entities won't go into the database.

does this mean something like the pseudo code below?

//start transation
//entity operations
//end transaction

Also, I am bit unsure how one can create transaction and extended persistence contexts with application managed entity managers in a java se environment. some code snippets would be great to see!

[Deepika Joshi]

extended persistence contexts with application managed entity managers in a java se environment. some code snippets would be great to see!

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[Ralph Jaus]

does this mean something like the pseudo code below?

Yes, almost:

//start transation
entityManager.joinTransaction()
//entity operations
//end transaction

would do. In BMT you have to code the

//start transaction
// end transaction

parts, while in CMT the container handles these parts automatically.

Please note that there are two types of extended persistence contexts:

- persistence context of an application managed entity manager
- persistence context of an container managed entity manager of a stateful session bean with persistence type EXTENDED

Answer a) holds for both, but the explanation

Unless an extended persistence context is manually enlisted in a transaction, the entities won't go into the database.

only holds for application managed entity managers: An extended persistence context of an container managed entity manager will be automatically associated with an active transaction.

And there is another exception to the quoted explanation: If an application managed entity manager is created within an transaction, its persistence context is automatically associated with the transaction. No joinTransaction() is needed in this situation. But answer a) is still right.

[Niranjan Deshpande]

So, when it comes to transactions-JavaSE following things hold-

1. RESOURCE_LOCAL in persistence.xml
2. entity managers are application managed, with extended persistence context (always).
3. joinTransaction( ) not needed as since the EntityManager itself is creating the transaction instead of the container,
it implicitly keeps track of EntityTransactions, so the join is not necessary.
4. need to explicitly close the entity manager and entity manager factory.

Can any one help me list such points for transactions-JavaEE? Please correct if I missed something in the above list!