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| <P>Always set the value of jta-data-source and non-jta-data-source in your persistence.xml file. Regardless if targeting your EntityManager usage for transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL" or transaction-type="TRANSACTION", it's very difficult to guarantee one or the other will be the only one needed. Often times the JPA Provider itself will require both internally to do various optimizations or other special features. </P> |
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| <LI>The <B>jta-data-source</B> should always have it's OpenEJB-specific '<B>JtaManaged</B>' property set to '<B>true</B>' (this is the default)</LI> |
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| <LI>Call EntityManager.merge(..) inside the bean code to reattach your object.</LI> |
| <LI>Use PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED as in '@PersistenceContext(unitName = "movie-unit", type = PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED)' for EntityManager refs instead of the default of PersistenceContextType.TRANSACTION.</LI> |
| <LI>If testing, use a technique to execute transactions in your test code. That's described here in <A href="unit-testing-transactions.html" title="Unit Testing Transactions">Unit Testing Transactions</A></LI> |
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