Transaction propagation--- is it possible??

[Sajid Moinuddin]

Suppose I have a plain java client code like this.

    
theBigFatMethod()
{
      communicateWithEJBServerOneAndDoX(); // a web logic server
     
      communicateWithEJBServerTwoAndDoY(); // a jboss server
 
      communicateWithSomeOtherServiceAndDoZ(); // an webservice
 
      doSomeLocalThings();
}

now, I want theBigFatMethod() to be transactional. The easiest solution would be if I could create a transaction context and pass it to all the methods. Is it logical to think this way?? Can I really share a transaction context across j2ee containers? Or is it a two phase commit that I need?? Any hints / links will be greately appriciated.
Regards,
Sajid.

[Pradeep bhatt]

I dont think transaction context can be propagated between servers of different vendors.

[Sajid Moinuddin]

Hi,
got the answer. transactions can be propagated across application server if the servers supports distributed transaction. transaction context propagation is the main concept of distributed Tx management and ejbservers that supports distributed transaction propagation must follow OMG1.1 protocol. So transactions context are propagated over iiop.
regards,
Sajid