What is new in BTM version 1.3

BTM underwent many changes for version 1.3. Here is a short summary of what's new and noteworthy.

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New Features

JNDI provider

• The new JNDI provider and the new jndiUserTransactionName configuration property.

Journal

• The new Null journal and the related journal config property.

Recoverer

• Incremental recovery.

Resource loader

• The bitronix.tm.resource.bind property is now useless and has been removed.
• The new retryUnrecoverableResourcesRegistrationInterval config property and the related feature.

Transaction manager

• No shutdown hook is registered anymore.
• Handling of unilateral resources rollback.
• Transaction termination can be directly controlled, no more need to use the TransactionManager interface.
• Per-resource timeout.
• The new resources ordering algorithm and the new twoPcOrderingPosition resource bean property.
• The removal of the bitronix.tm.timer.transactionRetryInterval config property.

Upgrading from version 1.2

Checklist

• Get rid of the bitronix.tm.resource.bind property in the resource loader's config file if present.
• Get rid of the bitronix.tm.timer.transactionRetryInterval config property if set.
• Make sure you manually shutdown the transaction manager.