I using Infinispan as a second level cache under Hibernate 3.3. Hibernate is configured to use JTA transactions in clustered Glassfish 2.1.1 enviroment. Isn't it possible to make Infinispan just hook on to already existent transactions using a regular data resource (ie non XA-resource). I get this exception when running a simple Hibernate Query: "Local transaction already has 1 non-XA Resource"

Note that I didn't get these exceptions using the ehcache config. here's my persistence.xml:

<persistence-unit name="entityManager" transaction-type="JTA">
<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
<jta-data-source>jdbc/ejb/eur_unbranded</jta-data-source>
...
<!-- infinispan config -->
<property name="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class" value="org.hibernate.transaction.SunONETransactionManagerLookup"/>
<property name="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache" value="true"/>
<property name="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class" value="org.hibernate.cache.infinispan.InfinispanRegionFactory"/>
<property name="hibernate.cache.infinispan.statistics" value="true"/>

Thanks in advance!

Martin

Infinispan is of course a transactional cache. If you were using an EHCache version prior to 2.0, it was not transactional:

See: Terracotta Distributed Ehcache for Hibernate Reference

What caching strategy are you using for your entities? E.g.

or

?

Thanks for the answear.

When we used EHCache, we mostly used CacheConcurrencyStrategy.NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE, but I managed to have CacheConcurrencyStrategy.TRANSACTIONAL on ehcache to work without an XA resource (i.e. by using a plain data source without distributed transaction support). Maybe that was 1.0 version then?

So, if we're gonna use Infinispan, we have to configure it for CacheConcurrencyStrategy.TRANSACTIONAL and use XA-data rources?
Regards,
Martin