Transaction Manager Failover: A Case Study Using JBOSS Application Server

This paper describes, for the case of Enterprise Java Bean components and JBoss application server, how replication for availability can be supported to tolerate application server/transaction manager failures Replicating the state associated with the progression of a transaction (i.e., which phase of two-phase commit is enacted and the transactional resources involved) provides an opportunity to continue a transaction using a backup transaction manager if the transaction manager of the primary fails Existing application servers do not support this functionality The paper discusses the technical issues involved and shows how a solution can be engineered.

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