Configuring Open Source JTA Transaction Managers with Spring

This blog post records in one place the Spring configuration required for each of the four most commonly used open source standalone transaction managers:

For Arjuna / JBossTS, apply the following configuration.:

<bean id="jbossTS"  class="com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionManagerImple"  />
<bean id="jbossUserTransaction"  
    class="com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.UserTransactionImple"  />

<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
    <property name="transactionManager" ref="jbossTS" />
    <property name="userTransaction" ref="jbossUserTransaction"  />
</bean>    

For JOTM, apply the following:

<bean id="jotm" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JotmFactoryBean" />
<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
    <property name="userTransaction" ref="jotm" />
    <property name="allowCustomIsolationLevels" value="true" />
</bean>

For Atomikos, the following configuration can be used:

<bean id="atomikos" class="com.atomikos.icatch.jta.UserTransactionManager"  
    init-method="init" destroy-method="close">
   <property name="forceShutdown" value="false" />
</bean>

<bean id="atomikosUserTransaction" class="com.atomikos.icatch.jta.UserTransactionImp">
   <property name="transactionTimeout" value="300" />
</bean>

<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
   <property name="transactionManager" ref="atomikos" />
   <property name="userTransaction" ref="AtomikosUserTransaction" />
</bean>

Finally, for Bitronix you can use the following:

<bean id="bitronixConfig" factory-method="getConfiguration" 
    class="bitronix.tm.TransactionManagerServices">
    <property name="serverId" value="spring-btm" />
</bean>
<bean id="bitronix" factory-method="getTransactionManager"
    class="bitronix.tm.TransactionManagerServices" depends-on="bitronixConfig" 
    destroy-method="shutdown" />
<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
    <property name="transactionManager" ref="bitronix" />
    <property name="userTransaction" ref="bitronix" />
</bean>