Re: [Bodington-developers] Locking Issues (Java, Explicit DB, Optimistic DB)

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Jon Maber wrote:
> Is this another solution?
> *put a transaction manager in front of the database.

By this do you mean move to using JTA? If so what do we gain from this 
over JDBC trasactions apart from abstracting transactions away from the 
implementation (which is a good thing)?

Or are you suggesting that we manage transactions on our Java objects, 
in effect move to an EJB container?

-- 
  -- Matthew Buckett, VLE Developer
  -- Learning Technologies Group, Oxford University Computing Services
  -- Tel: +44 (0)1865 283660 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/