[GEODE-2301] Deprecate JTA transaction manager from Geode

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: docs, transactions
• Labels: storage_2
• Assignee: Eric Shu
• Reporter: Swapnil Bawaskar
• Created: 16/Jan/17 17:52
• Updated: 22/Jun/17 16:06
• Resolved: 17/Jun/17 15:38

Description

We should deprecate and log a warning when using the JTA transaction manager that ships with Geode on the following grounds:
From documentation:

Geode ships with its own implementation of a JTA transaction manager.
However, note that this implementation is not XA-compliant;
therefore, it does not persist any state, which could lead to an inconsistent
state after recovering a crashed member.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #581

Sub-Tasks

• Need ability to plug-in JNDI name of JTATransactionManager: Open
• Make starting a JTA transaction manager optional: Open