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3rd party systems not supporting XA protocol

How can I implement distributed transactions involving 3rd party systems/API's which do not support XA protocol ?

Solution

  • There are two cases:

    • you don't have the source code of the 3rd party system, you can't
    • you have the source code
      • it already uses transactions, you need to implement the XA spec on top of their transaction semantics. This requires an XA specialist
      • forget about it. You would need to introduce transaction semantics to the product.