How to do distributed transaction in java involving jdbc,jms and webservices
java, transactions
Solution
The critical factor is that the web services you connect to have been built using a web services framework that supports transactions. JBoss Narayana is one such web services framework. Once the web services endpoint you are connecting to is on such a framework, it's just a matter of configuring spring to use the appropriate client.
In the case of Narayana, the spring config (from http://bgshinhung.blogspot.ca/2012/10/integrating-spring-framework-jetty-and.html) for transactions with web services:
Problem
I was asked the following question in an interview and couldn't answer that. How do you include a jdbc operation,a web service call and a JMS operation into one single transaction. That means if one of them fails all has to be roll backed. I have heard about two-phase commit protocol and oracl XA in case of database transactions involving multiple databases. But not sure whether the same can be used here.