How to use BTM as the transaction manager in Jetty 6.x

These instructions have been verified against BTM 1.3.1.

Jetty 6 JNDI support Before you can get the transaction manager and datasources via JNDI ENC (URLs starting with java:comp/), you first need to configure Jetty with support for it. See Jetty's JNDI documentation page.

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Step 1: Copy the BTM jars

Copy the following jars from the BTM distribution in the jetty6 lib/ext/ directory:

• btm-1.3.1.jar
• geronimo-jta_1.0.1B_spec-1.0.1.jar
• slf4j-api-1.5.2.jar
• btm-jetty6-lifecycle.jar

Also copy the following jars in the jetty6 lib/ext/ directory:

• slf4j-log4j12-1.5.2.jar (available from here)
• log4j-1.2.15.jar (download it from here)

You will also need to copy your JDBC driver's JAR file in that same folder. In this example, we've used Derby 10.3.2.1 so we copied derby.jar in Jetty's lib/ext/ directory.

Step 2: Configure BTM as the transaction manager

Copy the following into your jetty config file:

Do not forget to create the work/ directory in Jetty's home folder !

Hint This will make the transaction manager available under this JNDI URL: java:comp/UserTransaction.

Step 3: Configure DataSources that are transaction aware

The easiest way to do this is to use the DataSource that ship with BTM.

Here's an example of using BTM with a DataSource that implements javax.sql.XADataSource:

The bitronix.tm.resource.jdbc.PoolingDataSource implements javax.sql.DataSource and interacts with the javax.sql.XADataSource provided in this instance by Derby.

Hint This datasource will be available under this JNDI URL: java:comp/env/jdbc/mydatasource.

If your database vendor does not provide an XADataSource, you can use BTM's bitronix.tm.resource.jdbc.lrc.LrcXADataSource as the XADataSource to allow your database connections to be controlled by the transaction manager:

Hint This datasource will be available under this JNDI URL: java:comp/env/jdbc/exampleNonXADS.

Again, we've used Derby as an example, but as the LrcXADataSource uses only the class name and url of a java.sql.Driver, you can use it with any database providing a JDBC driver.

Step 4: Configure datasources references in your web.xml

Before your code can access configured datasources via JNDI ENC URLs, you need to declare resource references in your web.xml:

Now you can perform JNDI lookups on those URLs to access the configured datasources:

and you can do JNDI lookups on this URL to access the transaction manager: