Is it possible to set the transaction timeout at the application level

[Dave Alvarado]

Hi,

I'm using JBoss 7.1.1. on Mac 10.7.5. While I was able to find how to set the transaction timeout on a global basis, is it possible to put some kind of configuration into my WAR file to tell JBoss I want a specific transaction timeout for my application? I'm using Spring 3.1.1.RELEASE and Hibernate 4.1.0.Final.

Thanks, - Dave

[Jaikiran Pai]

Transaction timeout for EJBs? If so, you can do that using @org.jboss.ejb3.annotation.TransactionTimeout on the individual beans.

[Dave Alvarado]

Oh, no, I'm creating a web application (WAR) and am currently using Spring "@Transactional" annotation to declare which of my service methods (service class is declared with Spring's @Service annotation) I want treated as transactions. Here's how i declare my transaction manager in my spring application context ...

	<!-- JNDI name for EntityManagerFactory is defined in src/main/resources/META-INF/persistence.xml -->
	<jee:jndi-lookup jndi-name="java:jboss/subco/mypersistence" id="entityManagerFactory"
                     expected-type="javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory" />

	<bean id="entityManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.SharedEntityManagerBean">
   		<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory"/>
	</bean>
                     
	<tx:jta-transaction-manager />

and here's my persistence.xml file ...

<persistence version="2.0"
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
        http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd">
	<persistence-unit name="myclientunit">
		<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
		<jta-data-source>java:jboss/datasources/MySqlDS</jta-data-source>
		<properties>
			<property name="hibernate.ejb.cfgfile" value="/hibernate.cfg.xml" />
			<property name="jboss.entity.manager.factory.jndi.name"
				value="java:jboss/myco/mypersistence" />
			<property name="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform" value="org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.JBossAppServerJtaPlatform" />
		</properties>
	</persistence-unit>
</persistence>

[Jaikiran Pai]

So it looks like you want to set the transaciton timeout controlled by the Spring transaction manager?

[Dave Alvarado]

Yeah, I think so. I tried setting the timeout attribute on the "@Transactional" method of my service class ...

@Service("myService")
public class MyServiceImpl implements MyService
{

    @Transactional(timeout = 20)
    public void run(final Map<Integer, Order> orders)
    {

but this doesn't work (I set it to a low value to test it stuff would actually time out, but it didn't).

[Mark Spritzler]

So for 20 seconds. And you say a call to that method did not timeout and rollback?

You can also put @Transactional on top of the class and all the public interface methods then all get those settings and is transactional.

Did you also use

<tx:annotation-driven/> in your xml config file?

Mark