activeMQ does not participate in Weblogic XA transactions - jms

Question

I try to get XA transactions involving a jdbc and jms DataSource working in a Spring webapp deployed to Weblogic.
Using a local Atomikos TransactionManager, this works - I see XA debug messages in ActiveMQ, and stuff stays consistent. In Weblogic however, the database and ActiveMQ are not transactionally consistent.
I have added a foreign JMS server in Weblogic
JNDI Initial Context Factory:
org.apache.activemq.jndi.ActiveMQInitialContextFactory
JNDI Connection URL:
tcp://localhost:61616
JNDI Properties:
connectionFactoryNames=XAConnectionFactory
To that server, I have added a ConnectionFactory (Remote JNDI Name = XAConnectionFactory). Lookups work, so far so good.
In my code, this is how I setup the Spring JTA:
#Override
#Bean
#Profile(AppConfig.PROFILE_WEBLOGIC)
public JtaTransactionManager transactionManager()
{
WebLogicJtaTransactionManager tx = new WebLogicJtaTransactionManager();
tx.afterPropertiesSet();
return tx;
}
And this is my JMS config:
#Bean
#Profile(AppConfig.PROFILE_WEBLOGIC)
public ConnectionFactory connectionFactory()
{
Properties props = new Properties();
props.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, env.getProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY));
props.setProperty(Context.PROVIDER_URL, env.getProperty(Context.PROVIDER_URL));
try
{
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(props);
ActiveMQXAConnectionFactory connectionFactory = (ActiveMQXAConnectionFactory) ctx
.lookup(env.getProperty("jms.connectionFactory"));
return connectionFactory;
}
catch(NamingException e)
{
throw new RuntimeException("XAConnectionFactory lookup failed", e);
}
}
#Bean
public DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory jmsListenerContainerFactory() throws JMSException
{
DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory factory = new DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory();
factory.setConnectionFactory(connectionFactory());
factory.setSessionAcknowledgeMode(Session.CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE);
factory.setTransactionManager(txConfig.transactionManager());
factory.setBackOff(new FixedBackOff());
return factory;
}
#Bean(name = "jmsTemplate")
#Override
public JmsTemplate jmsTemplate() throws JMSException
{
JmsTemplate t = new JmsTemplate();
t.setConnectionFactory(connectionFactory());
t.setMessageTimestampEnabled(true);
t.setMessageIdEnabled(true);
return t;
}
My JMS consumer is annotated with:
#Transactional
#JmsListener(destination = "test.q1")
Is there anything I am missing?

Answer 1

Turns out this only works via the Resource Adapter, its not possible solely via the JNDI ConnectionFactory.

Answer 2

It is possible, using the undocumented ActiveMQ JNDI property "xa=true" in the foreign JMS server definition, see here:
Deployment of ActiveMQ resource adapter fails
ActiveMQInitialConnectionFactory cannot return an
XAConnectionFactory
ActiveMQInitialConnectionFactory returns XA
connection factory