When us­ing Tom­cat and dis­trib­uted trans­ac­tions, there are 2 pit­falls to be aware of:

Our cus­tomers reg­u­lar­ly ask for dis­as­ter re­cov­ery op­tions in com­bi­na­tion with our JTA/XA im­ple­men­ta­tion.

This post was based on old con­tent and is no longer rel­e­vant.

Visit our Distrib­uted Trans­ac­tions Tu­to­r­i­al for equiv­a­lent con­tent.

We found this nice tu­to­r­i­al by Gonça­lo Mar­ques cov­er­ing ba­sic two-phase com­mit with Spring, Tom­cat and Atomikos.

En­joy!

PS with our lat­est Tom­cat in­te­gra­tion - avail­able to com­mer­cial sub­scribers - things are even eas­i­er

If you're into OSGi then you might want to check out our new OSGi doc­u­men­ta­tion, ex­plain­ing how to use Atomikos in OSGi (thanks to Pas­cal Le­cler­cq).

Of course, this page will be up­dat­ed once we sup­port even more OSGi good­ies - we have enough of those wait­ing in our back­log...