JBoss Locking (follow-up)

First published on November 23 2005 and tagged Tech . JBoss .

Here is a follow up from my last article based on a e.mail exchange I had with Julien.

The framework we currently use (JCoffee) is indeed managing by itself optimistic locking - by using a compulsory version field to the CMP -. It does not rely on jboss locking features. The editor vision is indeed to be application server vendor independent. [update: nice vison, technically impossible though… cf. comments]

As Julien pointed me out:

  • Jboss does manage optimistic locking

  • Jboss also supports REPEATABLE_READ transaction isolation level for the Instance Per Transaction policy'', forcing the CMP engine to perform SELECT FOR UPDATE'' queries.

But beware, according to what I just read Oracle (and Postgres) only support using FOR UPDATE for queries that do not include SELECT DISTINCT.