Transaction strategies: Models and strategies overview

It's a common mistake to confuse transaction models with transaction strategies. This second article in the Transaction strategies series outlines the three transaction models supported by the Java platform and introduces four primary transaction strategies that use those models. Using examples from the Spring Framework and the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 specification, Mark Richards explains how the transaction models work and how they can form the basis for developing transaction strategies ranging from basic transaction processing to high-speed transaction-processing systems.

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