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[Brian Smith]

hi folks,
what is the meaning and signficance of question 18? Why are those methods must run in the transaction context of the methods that invoke those methods?
namaste

[Keith Rosenfield]

Hi Namaste:
The following quotes are found in 10.5.3 of the spec.

The container must invoke this method in the transaction context determined by the transaction
attribute of the business method that triggered the ejbLoad method.

A select method executes in the transaction context determined by the transaction attribute of
the invoking business method.

The container must ensure that the ejbRemove method and database delete operations are
performed in the transaction context determined by the transaction attribute of the invoked
remove method

It is clear from these quotes that ejbLoad, ejbSelect and ejbRemove run in the transaction context of the method that causes their invocation. ejbLoad and ejbSelect are invoked from business methods and ejbRemove is invoked from a remove method.
As for why it is necessary for them to run in the same context, I'm not sure. Can anyone clear this up.
[ December 13, 2003: Message edited by: Keith Rosenfield ]

[Mikalai Zaikin]

Hi,
Let's think of entity bean as a row in the table,
So, any opeation with data in DB table has to be performed within transaction, otherwise we could loose data consistency.
Cheers

[Nauman Khan]

Hi Mikali,
This is right but why is the condition that these ejbLoad,ejbStore,ejbRemove etc method run in the context of calling method transaction, why it cannot run in its own transaction context?.
Regards,