Spring JTA TransactionManager config: Supporting both Tomcat and JBoss

Question

I have a web application using JPA and JTA with Spring. I would like to support both JBoss and Tomcat. When running on JBoss, I'd like to use JBoss' own TransactionManager, and when running on Tomcat, I'd like to use JOTM.

I have both scenarios working, but I now find that I seem to need two separate Spring configurations for the two cases. With JOTM, I need to use Spring's JotmFactoryBean:

<bean id="transactionManager" 
 class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
    <property name="userTransaction">
        <bean class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JotmFactoryBean"/>
    </property>
</bean>

In JBoss, though, I just need to fetch "TransactionManager" from JNDI:

<bean id="transactionManager" 
 class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
    <property name="transactionManager">
        <bean class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
             <property name="resourceRef" value="true" />
             <property name="jndiName" value="TransactionManager" />
             <property name="expectedType" 
               value="javax.transaction.TransactionManager" />
        </bean>
    </property>
</bean>

Is there a way to configure this so that the appropriate TransactionManager - JBoss or JOTM - is used, without the need for two different configuration files?

Answer 1

I think you have missed the point of JNDI. JNDI was pretty much written to solve the problem you have!

I think you can take it up a level, so instead of using the "userTransaction" or "transactionManager from JNDI" depending on your situation. Why not add the "JtaTransactionManager" to JNDI. That way you push the configuration to the JNDI where it is supposed to be instead of creating even more configuration files [ like there aren't enough already ;) ].