= The Transaction Control service

If you're new to the Transaction Control service then we suggest that you read the xref:modules/tx-control/quickstart.adoc[Quick Start Page] first.

== Why use the Transaction Control service?

Simply put the Transaction Control service makes resource access easy!
There's no need to worry about transaction lifecycle or closing connections, and there's built in support for useful features like  connection pooling.

=== The Aries Transaction Control implementations

These modules provide implementations of the TransactionControl service

* xref:modules/tx-control/localTransactions.adoc[The Local Transaction Control Service]
* xref:modules/tx-control/xaTransactions[The XA Transaction Control Service and Last Participant support]

=== Configuring JDBC access

These modules provide portable JDBC resource providers with built in connection pooling and  transactional resource access

* xref:modules/tx-control/localJDBC.adoc[JDBC with Local Transactions]
* xref:modules/tx-control/xaJDBC.adoc[JDBC with XA Transactions]

=== Configuring JPA access

These modules provide portable JPA resource providers for transactional resource access

* xref:modules/tx-control/localJPA.adoc[JPA with Local Transactions]
* xref:modules/tx-control/xaJPA.adoc[JPA with XA Transactions]

=== Advanced topics

* xref:modules/tx-control/coordinator.adoc[Using the Coordinator to optimise Transactions]
* xref:modules/tx-control/lastResourceGambit.adoc[Making use of the Last Resource Gambit]
* xref:modules/tx-control/advancedResourceProviders.adoc[Custom Resource Providers]
* xref:modules/tx-control/advancedScopes.adoc[Advanced Scope control]
* xref:modules/tx-control/exceptionManagement.adoc[Exception Management]
* xref:modules/tx-control/spring-tx.adoc[Migrating from Spring and Java EE Declarative Transactions]