Support ResourceAdapter without requiring the Geronimo TransactionManager implementation

• Key: OPENEJB-895
• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Dain Sundstrom
• Reporter: Dain Sundstrom
• Component/s: connectors
• Fix Version/s: 3.1

Description

Currently the Geronimo TransactionManager implementation is required to add a ResourceAdapter to OpenEJB, because OpenEJB does not have a WorkManager implementation. A complete WorkManager implementation requires internal access to a TransactionManager to perform XID importation, but since most ResourceAdapters (such as ActiveMQ) do not need XID importation, OpenEJB could provide a partial implementation when operating in an environment without a Geronimo TransactionManager implementation. Also, the connector specification has well defined exceptions to notify the ResourceAdapter implementation that work manager is unable to import the XID.