BEA WebLogic Server™ 8.1 Unleashed

Best Practice for Choosing Transaction Attributes

In this section, we discuss the best practices for choosing the appropriate transaction attributes. The recommended choice for a transaction attribute is Required because it ensures that the methods of an enterprise bean are invoked under a JTA transaction. These EJBs can be made to perform work under the scope of a single transaction.

• If an enterprise bean method needs to commit its results unconditionally, the RequiresNew transaction attribute is the right choice. That attribute always creates a new transaction, regardless of whether another transaction is in progress—an example is logging. The appropriate method in the EJB that performs logging should be invoked with the RequiresNew attribute. ...