org.castor.transactionmanager
Interface TransactionManagerFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractTransactionManagerFactory, JNDIENCTransactionManagerFactory, JOTMTransactionManagerFactory, LocalTransactionManagerFactory

public interface TransactionManagerFactory

A factory for properly acquiring javax.transaction.TransactionManager from J2EE containers. To provide an implementation for a specific J2EE container, implement this interface.

Since:

1.0

Version:

$Revision: 7085 $ $Date: 2005-12-19 15:48:30 -0700 (Mon, 19 Dec 2005) $

Author:

Bruce Snyder, Werner Guttmann, Ralf Joachim

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getName() Returns the short alias for this factory instance.
javax.transaction.TransactionManager	getTransactionManager(java.util.Properties properties) Acquires the appropriate javax.transaction.TransactionManager with the given properties.

Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Returns the short alias for this factory instance.

Returns:

The short alias name.

getTransactionManager

public javax.transaction.TransactionManager getTransactionManager(java.util.Properties properties)
                                                           throws TransactionManagerAcquireException

Acquires the appropriate javax.transaction.TransactionManager with the given properties.

Parameters:

properties - The properties passed to the transaction manager.

Returns:

The transaction manager.

Throws:

TransactionManagerAcquireException - If any failure occured when loading the transaction manager.