I have an application that uses Spring's declarative transaction management. How can I deploy this in a TomEE+ container so that the application uses TomEE's JTA transaction manager?
More specifically, how can I refer to the built-in transaction manager from within Spring's "application-context.xml" file?
Spring's transaction management configuration seems to want to look up the transaction manager either by a bean reference or by JNDI lookup; I have spent a day researching this and looking at source code; I have found a lot of discussion of the issue (references below) but no definitive how-to.
What I have in the application's META-INF/persistence.xml is this:
<persistence-unit name="myPersistenceUnit" transaction-type="JTA">
<provider>org.apache.openjpa.persistence.PersistenceProviderImpl</provider>
<jta-data-source>myDs-managed</jta-data-source>
<non-jta-data-source>myDs-unmanaged</non-jta-data-source>
<properties>
<property name="openjpa.jdbc.DBDictionary"
value="org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.PostgresDictionary"/>
<property name="openjpa.jdbc.SynchronizeMappings" value="buildSchema"/>
<property name="openjpa.Run
<property name="openjpa.Log" value="slf4j" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
And, in the applications META-INF/spring/applicationContext.xml file I have this: (I have tried various values for transactionManagerName as suggested in various discussions of the topic, as it appears to be non-standard across application servers
<tx:annotation-driven mode="aspectj" transaction-manager="txManager" />
<bean class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager"
id="txManager">
<property name="transactionManagerName"
value=" java:comp/TransactionManager"/>
</bean>
Here's an example that is claimed to work for JBoss: Spring JTA configuration - how to set TransactionManager?
Here's a near miss that won't work in an xml configuration file: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TOMEE-38
Here's how to do it within java code if you have your hands on initialContext: http://osdir.com/ml/users.openejb.apache.org/2012-11/msg00110.html
[Edit: The Tomee documentation talks about how to declare a transaction manager, but it says to do it in Tomee.xml, which belongs to the server and not to the individual webapp; I want to configure the transaction manager for a single app and not for the whole server: http://tomee.apache.org/containers-and-resources.html]
Have you tried java:comp/env/TransactionManager for the transactionManagerName?
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Also have you declared the TransactionManager and DataSource as described here: http://tomee.apache.org/containers-and-resources.html?
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I have developed a small webapp using and SpringMVC(3.1.3.RELEASE) and Hibernate 4.2.0.Final.
I'm trying to convert it to be a multi-tenant application.
Similar topics have been covered in other threads, but I couldn't find a definitive solution to my problem.
What I am trying to achieve is to design a web app which is able to:
Read a datasource configuration at startup (an XML file containing multiple datasource definitions, which is placed outside the WAR file and it's not the application-context or hibernate configuration file)
Create a session factory for each one of them (considering that each datasource is a database with a different schema).
How can i set my session factory scope as session? ( OR Can i reuse the same session factory ?) .
Example:
Url for client a - URL: http://project.com/a/login.html
Url for client b - URL: http://project.com/b/login.html
If client "a" make request,read the datasource configuration file and Create a session factory using that XML file for the client "a".
This same process will be repeating if the client "b" will send a request.
What I am looking, how to implement datasource creation upon customer subscription without editing the Spring configuration file. It needs to be automated.
Here is my code ,that i have done so far.
Please anyone tell me,What modifications i need to be made?
Please give an answer with some example code..I am quite new in spring and hibernate world.
Spring.xml
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
destroy-method="close" p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}"
p:url="${jdbc.databaseurl}"
p:username="${jdbc.username}" p:password="${jdbc.password}" />
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="configLocation">
<value>classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">${jdbc.dialect}</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
JDBC.properties File
jdbc.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
jdbc.databaseurl=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/Logistics
jdbc.username=root
jdbc.password=rot#pspl#12
hibernate.cfg.xml File
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<mapping class="pepper.logis.organizations.model.Organizaions" />
<mapping class="pepper.logis.assets.model.Assets" />
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
Thanks,
First create a table for Tenant with tenant_id and associate it with all users.Now, you can fetch this details while the user logs in and set it in session.
We are using AbstractRoutingDataSource to switch DataSource for every request on Spring Boot. I think it is Hot Swapable targets/datasource mentioned by #bhantol above.
It solves our problems but I don't think it is sound solution. I guess JNDI could be a better one than AbstractRoutingDataSource.
Wondering what you ended up with.
Here are some ideas for you.
Option 1) Single Application Instance.
It is somewhat ambitious to to this using what you are actually trying to achieve.
The gist is to simply deploy the same exact application with different context root on the same JVM. You can still tune the JVM as a whole like you would have if you had a truely multi-tenant application. But this comes at the expense of duplication of classes, contexts, local caching, start up times etc.
But as of today the Spring Framework 4.0 does not provide much of an multi-tenancy support (other than Hot Swapable targets/datasource) etc. I am looking for a good framework but it may be a wash to move away from Spring at this time for me.
Option 2) Multiple deployments of same application (more practical as of today)
Just have your same exact application deploy to the same application server JVM instance or even different.
If you use the same instance you may now need to bootstrap your app to pickup a DataSource based on what the instance should serve e.g. client=a property would be enough to pickup a **a**DataSource" or **b**DataSource I myself ended up going this approach.
If you have a different application server instance you could just configure a different JNDI path and treat things generically. No need for client="a" property because you have liberty to define your datasource differently with the same name.
I have an OSGi bundle which needs to persist data in a database. As described in a previous stackoverflow question I have found that in order for transactions to work as expected I need to use an XADataSource to connect to the database. When I do so however I see that the connections to the database that are opened by my application are never closed, which of course results in the database not being able to accept any more connections after a while.
My setup is the following:
I have a bundle which creates the datasource and which only includes a blueprint.xml file with the following content
<blueprint xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0">
<bean id="dataSource" class="com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource">
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myschema"/>
<property name="user" value="user"/>
<property name="password" value="pass"/>
</bean>
<service interface="javax.sql.XADataSource" ref="dataSource">
<service-properties>
<entry key="osgi.jndi.service.name" value="jdbc/mysqlds"/>
</service-properties>
</service>
</blueprint>
Then in the bundle that persists my data I have a persistence.xml
<persistence version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="mypu" transaction-type="JTA">
<jta-data-source>osgi:service/javax.sql.DataSource/(osgi.jndi.service.name=jdbc/mysqlds)
</jta-data-source>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
And I specify that my service methods should run in a transaction in my blueprint.xml
<bean id="MyServiceImpl"
class="com.test.impl.MyServiceImpl">
<jpa:context property="em" unitname="mypu" />
<tx:transaction method="*" value="Required" />
</bean>
<service id="MyService" ref="MyServiceImpl" interface="com.test.api.MyService" />
I deploy by bundles in Karaf, using Aries and OpenJPA for persistence, while I have also deployed the Aries transaction wrapper bundle (org.apache.aries.transaction.wrappers) in order to enlist my XA resources with the transaction manager.
Any ideas what I am missing in my configuration?
Edit:
After some more searching I found this DBCP issue which suggests that the problem I'm having is a bug of DBCP with MySQL. However I'm at a loss on how to replace DBCP with some other Connection Pool implementation OpenJPA can work with. Any suggestions are more than welcome.
I used commons-dbcp to have a connection pool that also enlists XA Connections with the following configuration:
<bean id="myXAEnabledConnectionPoolDataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.managed.BasicManagedDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="xaDataSourceInstance" ref="mysqlXADataSourceBean" />
<property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
</bean>
You can get the transaction manager as a reference based on the interface javax.transaction.TransactionManager.
In this way commons-dbcp will handle the lifecycle of the connections properly. Please note that the destroy method is there so when the blueprint container stops the connection pool will be closed.
Edit:
1-2 years ago I had the same problem but with PostgreSQL. I debugged aries.transaction.wrapper at that time a lot but I cannot remember exactly the cause why I left it out. I think the motivation was behind that commons-dbcp is a solution that worked for me in previous projects while I could not fix aries.transaction.wrapper even after analyzing it's code a lot.
Please note that MysqlDataSource is not a connection pool. It gives back a new connection always when you need one. It is also not XA enabled. MysqlXADatasource is XA enabled so you should probably instantiate an object from that class. However, an XADataSource is responsible only to give back XAConnections for you but not for enlisting them. That is where a ManagedConnectionPool can help. A managed connection pool does the followings:
Wraps all provided Connection objects with a custom managed connection class
In case close is called on a connection, it is not closed if there is an ongoing transaction. It is only closed (added back to the pool) when a transaction commit or rollback is done
In case a connection is queried from the pool and there was a connection also provided in the same transaction, the same transaction will be returned (that was a difficult sentence :))
Sometimes JDBC drivers provide connection pools and even managed connection pools, however, it is better to use the JDBC driver only to get new connections and wrap it with a 3rdparty library that was tested in several projects and works for sure.
I am having multiple datasource and one one database configured with JPA. I am using websphere 7. I want all these datasouces to be configured as global transactions. I am using below spring configurations but the transactions are not working as expected global transaction. If one db is failing then the other db is getting commited which is not expected as single global transactions. Can you please help me where i m doing incorrect,
I am having 2 datasouce one as configured below with id="us_icfs_datasource" and another using JPA
<jee:jndi-lookup id="entityManagerFactory" jndi-name="persistence/persistenceUnit"/>
<bean id="pabpp" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor"/>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager" />
<!-- Needed for #Transactional annotation -->
<tx:annotation-driven/>
<jee:jndi-lookup id="US_ICFS_DATASORCE"
jndi-name="jdbc/financing_tools_docgen_txtmgr"
cache="true"
resource-ref="true"
proxy-interface="javax.sql.DataSource" />
also I have added below code in web.xml
<persistence-unit-ref>
<persistence-unit-ref-name>persistence/persistenceUnit</persistence-unit-ref-name>
<persistence-unit-name>persistenceUnit</persistence-unit-name>
</persistence-unit-ref>
<persistence-context-ref>
<persistence-context-ref-name>persistence/persistenceUnit</persistence-context-ref-name>
<persistence-unit-name>persistenceUnit</persistence-unit-name>
</persistence-context-ref>
below is my code where i m using transaction
> #Transactional public TemplateMapping addTemplateMapping(User user,
> TemplateMapping templateMapping) throws
> TemplateMappingServiceException { .... }
On Websphere you should use this bean to hook into the Websphere transaction manager:
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.WebSphereUowTransactionManager"/>
See also this article
EDIT:
In order to use 2-phase commit (i.e. ensuring consistency across multiple resources), you will need to use XA data sources. See this article for details.
First of all your data sources that participate in global transaction must be of javax.sql.XADataSource type.
You also have to set transaction type in your persistence unit to JTA (not RESOURCE_LOCAL).
And you need to inform your JPA implementation that you want to do global transactions.
Previously, my Java web projects used Eclipse-ordinary structure, and at the start of the container (in case, Tomcat), Hibernate generated the schemes correctly.
Now I'm using Maven infrastructure. I've relocated the needed files and configured all well (I think, because all is working right: Spring is starting, Hibernate is connecting the database - when it was previously created and there's some data to fetch). I've tested all CRUD operations and it's working.
The problem is that Hibernate refuses to generate the schemes (DDL) as it did when over Eclipse-ordinary infrastructure.
Additional information:
My persistence.xml is almost empty (as always) because Spring applicationContext.xml is starting it. I have not changed the file, it continues the same way as before.
<!-- Location: src/main/resources/META-INF/persistence.xml -->
<persistence>
<persistence-unit name="jpa-persistence-unit" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL"/>
</persistence>
Part of the Spring configuration goes here (applicationContext.xml):
<!-- Location: src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml -->
<!-- ... -->
<bean id="jpaVendorAdapter" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
<property name="database" value="[DATABASE-NAME]" />
<property name="showSql" value="true" />
<property name="generateDdl" value="true" /> <!-- THIS CONFIGURATION WORKED PREVIOUSLY, NOW WITH MAVEN, IT'S IGNORED -->
<property name="databasePlatform" value="[DIALECT]" />
</bean>
<!-- ... -->
I'm not using any Maven Hibernate plugin, because I just want the default behavior that occurred earlier.
Did Maven invalidate this "generateDdl" property!? Why!? What should I do!? I can't find any solution.
I found out the solution.
Maven has any fault about that.
Hibernate was not able to create my database because the "DIALECT" was wrong.
I remembered that I changed the dialect from MySQL to MySQL-InnoDB. Hibernate was logging this problem but I couldn't see it because the slf4j-simple dependency was not explicity imported.
Thank you for your time, Shawn.
I originally set up spring with xapool, but it turns out that's a dead project and seems to have lots of problems.
I switched to c3p0, but now I learn that the #Transactional annotations don't actually create transactions when used with c3p0. If I do the following it will insert the row into Foo even through an exception was thrown inside the method:
#Service
public class FooTst
{
#PersistenceContext(unitName="accessControlDb") private EntityManager em;
#Transactional
public void insertFoo() {
em.createNativeQuery("INSERT INTO Foo (id) VALUES (:id)")
.setParameter("id", System.currentTimeMillis() % Integer.MAX_VALUE )
.executeUpdate();
throw new RuntimeException("Foo");
}
}
This is strange because if I comment out the #Transactional annotation it will actually fail and complain about having a transaction set to rollback only:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot get Transaction for setRollbackOnly
at org.objectweb.jotm.Current.setRollbackOnly(Current.java:568)
at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.markAsRollback(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:421)
at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.throwPersistenceException(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:576)
at org.hibernate.ejb.QueryImpl.executeUpdate(QueryImpl.java:48)
at com.ipass.rbac.svc.FooTst.insertFoo(FooTst.java:21)
at com.ipass.rbac.svc.SingleTst.testHasPriv(SingleTst.java:78)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringTestMethod.invoke(SpringTestMethod.java:160)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringMethodRoadie.runTestMethod(SpringMethodRoadie.java:233)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringMethodRoadie$RunBeforesThenTestThenAfters.run(SpringMethodRoadie.java:333)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringMethodRoadie.runWithRepetitions(SpringMethodRoadie.java:217)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringMethodRoadie.runTest(SpringMethodRoadie.java:197)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringMethodRoadie.run(SpringMethodRoadie.java:143)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.invokeTestMethod(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:160)
at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit4ClassRunner.runMethods(JUnit4ClassRunner.java:51)
at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit4ClassRunner$1.run(JUnit4ClassRunner.java:44)
at org.junit.internal.runners.ClassRoadie.runUnprotected(ClassRoadie.java:27)
at org.junit.internal.runners.ClassRoadie.runProtected(ClassRoadie.java:37)
at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit4ClassRunner.run(JUnit4ClassRunner.java:42)
at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:97)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:45)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:460)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:673)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:386)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)
So, clearly it notices the #Transactional annotation. But, it doesn't actually set autocommit to off at the start of the method.
Here is how I have transactional stuff setup up in the applicationContext.xml. Is this correct? If not, what is this supposed to be?
<bean id="jotm" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JotmFactoryBean"/>
<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
<property name="transactionManager" ref="jotm"/>
<property name="userTransaction" ref="jotm"/>
<property name="allowCustomIsolationLevels" value="true"/>
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager" proxy-target-class="false"/>
After a bunch of searching I found a connection pool called Bitronix, but their spring setup page describes stuff about JMS which doesn't even make any sense. What does JMS have to do with setting up a connection pool?
So I'm stuck. What am I actually supposed to do? I don't understand why the connection pool needs to support transactions. All connections support turning autocommit on and off, so I have no idea what the problem is here.
It took a lot of searching and experimentation, but I finally got things working. Here are my results:
enhydra xapool is a terrible connection pool. I won't enumerate the problems it caused because it doesn't matter. The latest version of that pool hasn't been updated since Dec 2006. It's a dead project.
I put c3p0 into my application context and got it working fairly easily. But, for some reason it just doesn't seem to support rollback even inside a single method. If I mark a method as #Transactional then do an insert into a table and then throw a RuntimeException (one that's definitely not declared in the throws list of the method because there is no throws list on the method) it will still keep the insert into that table. It will not roll back.
I was going to try Apache DBCP, but my searching turned up lots of complaints about it, so I didn't bother.
I tried Bitronix and had plenty of trouble getting it to work properly under Tomcat, but once I figured out the magic configuration it works beautifully. What follows is all the things you need to do to set it up properly.
I dabbled briefly with the Atomkos connection pool. It looks like it should be good, but I got Bitronix working first, so I didn't try using it much.
The configuration below works in standalone unit tests and under Tomcat. That was the major problem I had. Most of the examples I found about how to set up Spring with Bitronix assume that I'm using JBoss or some other full container.
The first bit of configuration is the part that sets up the Bitronix transaction manager.
<!-- Bitronix transaction manager -->
<bean id="btmConfig" factory-method="getConfiguration" class="bitronix.tm.TransactionManagerServices">
<property name="disableJmx" value="true" />
</bean>
<bean id="btmManager" factory-method="getTransactionManager" class="bitronix.tm.TransactionManagerServices" depends-on="btmConfig" destroy-method="shutdown"/>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
<property name="transactionManager" ref="btmManager" />
<property name="userTransaction" ref="btmManager" />
<property name="allowCustomIsolationLevels" value="true" />
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
The major difference between that code and the examples I found is the "disableJmx" property. It throws exceptions at runtime if you don't use JMX but leave it enabled.
The next bit of configuration is the connection pool data source. Note that the connection pool classname is not the normal oracle class "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver". It's an XA data source. I don't know what the equivalent class would be in other databases.
<bean id="dataSource" class="bitronix.tm.resource.jdbc.PoolingDataSource" init-method="init" destroy-method="close">
<property name="uniqueName" value="dataSource-BTM" />
<property name="minPoolSize" value="1" />
<property name="maxPoolSize" value="4" />
<property name="testQuery" value="SELECT 1 FROM dual" />
<property name="driverProperties"><props>
<prop key="URL">${jdbc.url}</prop>
<prop key="user">${jdbc.username}</prop>
<prop key="password">${jdbc.password}</prop>
</props></property>
<property name="className" value="oracle.jdbc.xa.client.OracleXADataSource" />
<property name="allowLocalTransactions" value="true" />
</bean>
Note also that the uniqueName needs to be different than any other data sources you have configured.
The testQuery of course needs to be specific to the database that you are using. The driver properties are specific to the database class that I'm using. OracleXADataSource for some silly reason has different setter names for OracleDriver for the same value.
The allowLocalTransactions had to be set to true for me. I found recommendations NOT to set it to true online. But, that seems to be impossible. It just won't work if it's set to false. I am not sufficiently knowledgeable about these things to know why that is.
Lastly we need to configure the entity manager factory.
<util:map id="jpa_property_map">
<entry key="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class" value="org.hibernate.transaction.BTMTransactionManagerLookup"/>
<entry key="hibernate.current_session_context_class" value="jta"/>
</util:map>
<bean id="dataSource-emf" name="accessControlDb" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
<property name="persistenceXmlLocation" value="classpath*:META-INF/foo-persistence.xml" />
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
<property name="showSql" value="true"/>
<property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect"/>
</bean>
</property>
<property name="jpaPropertyMap" ref="jpa_property_map"/>
<property name="jpaDialect"><bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaDialect"/></property>
</bean>
Note the dataSource property refers to the id of the dataSource I declared. The persistenceXmlLocation refers to a persistence xml file that exists in the classpath somewhere. The classpath*: indicates it may be in any jar. Without the * it won't find it if it's in a jar for some reason.
I found util:map to be a handy way to put the jpaPropertyMap values in one place so that I don't need to repeat them when I use multiple entity manager factories in one application context.
Note that the util:map above won't work unless you include the proper settings in the outer beans element. Here is the header of the xml file that I use:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
Lastly, in order for Bitronix (or apparently any cpool which supports two phase commit) to work with Oracle you need to run the following grants as user SYS. (See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.express.doc/info/exp/ae/rtrb_dsaccess2.html and http://docs.codehaus.org/display/BTM/FAQ and http://docs.codehaus.org/display/BTM/JdbcXaSupportEvaluation#JdbcXaSupportEvaluation-Oracle)
grant select on pending_trans$ to <someUsername>;
grant select on dba_2pc_pending to <someUsername>;
grant select on dba_pending_transactions to <someUsername>;
grant execute on dbms_system to <someUsername>;
Those grants need to be run for any user that a connection pool is set up for regardless of whether you actually do any modifying of anything. It apparently looks for those tables when a connection is established.
A few other misc issues:
You can't query tables which are remote synonyms in Oracle while inside a Spring #Transactional block while using Bitronix (you'll get an ORA-24777). Use materialized views or a separate EntityManager which directly points at the other DB instead.
For some reason the btmConfig in the applicationContext.xml has problems setting config values. Instead create a bitronix-default-config.properties file. The config values you can use are found at http://docs.codehaus.org/display/BTM/Configuration13 . Some other config info for that file is at http://docs.codehaus.org/display/BTM/JdbcConfiguration13 but I haven't used it.
Bitronix uses some local files to store transactional stuff. I don't know why, but I do know that if you have multiple webapps with local connection pools you will have problems because they will both try to access the same files. To fix this specify different values for bitronix.tm.journal.disk.logPart1Filename and bitronix.tm.journal.disk.logPart2Filename in the bitronix-default-config.properties for each app.
Bitronix javadocs are at http://www.bitronix.be/uploads/api/index.html .
That's pretty much it. It's very fiddly to get it to work, but it's working now and I'm happy. I hope that all this helps others who are going through the same troubles I did to get this all to work.
When I do connection pooling I tend to use the one provided by the app server I'm deploying on. It's just a JNDI name to Spring at that point.
Since I don't want to worry about an app server when I'm testing, I use a DriverManagerDataSource and its associated transaction manager when I'm unit testing. I'm not as concerned about pooling or performance when testing. I do want the tests to run efficiently, but pooling isn't a deal breaker in that case.