---
title:  Turning Off JTA Transactions
---

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You can configure regions to not participate in any JTA global transaction.

The `ignore-jta` region attribute is a boolean that tells the cache to ignore any in-progress JTA transactions when performing cache operations. It is primarily used for cache loaders, cache writers, and cache listeners that need to perform non-transactional operations on a region, such as caching a result set. It is set per region, so some regions can participate in JTA transactions, while others avoid participating in them. This example sets the `ignore-jta` region attribute in the `cache.xml` file.

cache.xml:

``` pre
<region name="bridge_region">
   <region-attributes scope="local" ignore-jta="true" statistics-enabled="true"/> 
       <cache-writer> . . . </cache-writer>
    </region-attributes> 
</region>
```

API:

Using the API, you can turn off JTA transactions using `RegionFactory` and its method `setIgnoreJTA(boolean)`. The current setting for a region can be fetched from a region's `RegionAttributes` by using the `getIgnoreJTA` method.