I have found lots of documentation about transaction handling in Hibernate 3 in combination with CMT.

The problem is that I'm running Hibernate 2.1 and the transaction handling doesn't work as intended.

Does anyone have a link to some useful documentation or can anyone explain how it's supposed to work?

If you correctly set Hibernate's TransactionManager and UserTransaction lookup classes there should be no problem using Hibernate with CMT.

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... onstrategy

Then use something like HibernateUtil class introduced in 'Hibernare in action'.

It's the same in H2:
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/refer ... onstrategy

Thank you for your reply.

The thing with the TransactionManagerLookup is that I'm running Sybase EAServer and I can't find an appropritate class to use so I have not been able to test this.
But I guess this is the catch...?

What does this mean (quoted from your link):

"net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory
delegates to database (JDBC) transactions (default)
"

?

Can I use net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory without specifying a TransactionManagareLookup class?

This is useful when you have single datasource - and the underlaying connection is used as a 'transaction'


Probably not. Look at the already implemented TransactionManagareLookup classes. It's really simple to write one for your EAServer.

Thank you, you are a good man Alesj :) I'll credit you.

I'll look up the existing TransactionManagerLookup classes and see if I could create one myself.

And then I'll take cover - we have a snow storm coming tonight (Sweden)...