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A transaction manager does not prevent failures. It determines what should happen when they do. Imagine one business operation needs to do…
Atomikos
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A transaction manager does not prevent failures.
It determines what should happen when they do.
Imagine one business operation needs to do two things:
1. Update a database
2. Send a message
If those two actions are handled independently, one can succeed while the other fails.
Database committed +
Message not sent -
Now the business operation is only half complete.
Atomikos coordinates transactional resources such as JDBC and JMS so related updates can participate in the same transaction.
That means the application gets one coordinated outcome:
Commit together — or roll back together.
The goal is not to make distributed systems failure-free.
It is to make recovery predictable when failures happen.
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