[GEODE-2302] Need ability to plug-in JNDI name of JTATransactionManager

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: transactions
• Labels: storage_2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Swapnil Bawaskar
• Created: 16/Jan/17 18:26
• Updated: 20/Sep/17 20:44

Description

Currently, Geode looks up the following JNDI names for transaction manager:
From JNDIInvoker

  private static String[][] knownJNDIManagers = {{"java:/TransactionManager", "JBoss"},
      {"java:comp/TransactionManager", "Cosminexus"}, // and many others
      {"java:appserver/TransactionManager", "GlassFish"}, {"java:pm/TransactionManager", "SunONE"},
      {"java:comp/UserTransaction", "Orion, JTOM, BEA WebLogic"},
      // not sure about the following but leaving it for backwards compat
      {"javax.transaction.TransactionManager", "BEA WebLogic"}};

We should provide a System property for the JNDI name so that the workflow is something like:

// get the system property value configured by administrator
String utxPropVal = System.getProperty(“jta.UserTransaction”);
// use JNDI to locate the UserTransaction object
Context ctx = new InitialContext();
UserTransaction utx = (UserTransaction)ctx.lookup(utxPropVal);
// start transaction work..
utx.begin();

We should also add java:comp/env/TransactionManager to the list of known TransactionManagers as it is used by Atomikos.