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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
May. 07, 1998
Pankaj Tandon, Nashua, NH (US);
Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for allowing a resource manager to be more tightly integrated with foreign transaction managers with which it interacts through the use of an extensible framework of transaction and resource manager events. The tighter integration made possible by a framework in which personality modules are registered with resource managers. Each personality module corresponds to a particular foreign transaction protocol. Each personality module includes a mapping of key resource and transaction events to actions, where the action mapped to a particular event is the action required by the protocol in response to the event. When an event occurs within the resource manager, the resource manager performs the action mapped to the particular event by the appropriate personality module. For an event associated with a particular transaction, the transaction type associated with the transaction is used to select the appropriate personality manager, and the mapping within the personality manager is used to determine the appropriate action to perform. For an event associated with the resource manager, the corresponding actions in all of the registered personality modules are performed.