Spring using the JTA transaction manager
The following code sample shows the Spring configuration file, configured for JTA transactions (using Bitronix in this case) with a shared entity manager factory (emf).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:jbpm="http://drools.org/schema/drools-spring"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http://drools.org/schema/drools-spring http://drools.org/schema/drools-spring-1.3.0.xsd">
<bean id="jbpmEMF" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="persistenceUnitName" value="org.jbpm.persistence.jta"/>
</bean>
<bean id="btmConfig" factory-method="getConfiguration" class="bitronix.tm.TransactionManagerServices">
</bean>
<bean id="BitronixTransactionManager" factory-method="getTransactionManager"
class="bitronix.tm.TransactionManagerServices" depends-on="btmConfig" destroy-method="shutdown" />
<bean id="jbpmTxManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
<property name="transactionManager" ref="BitronixTransactionManager" />
<property name="userTransaction" ref="BitronixTransactionManager" />
</bean>
<jbpm:kbase id="kbase1">
<jbpm:resources>
<jbpm:resource type="BPMN2" source="classpath:MyProcess.bpmn"/>
</jbpm:resources>
</jbpm:kbase>
<jbpm:ksession id="ksession1" type="stateful" kbase="kbase1">
<jbpm:configuration>
<jbpm:jpa-persistence>
<jbpm:transaction-manager ref="txManager"/>
<jbpm:entity-manager-factory ref="emf"/>
</jbpm:jpa-persistence>
</jbpm:configuration>
</jbpm:ksession>
And the matching persistence.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="1.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd">
<persistence-unit name="org.jbpm.persistence.jta" transaction-type="JTA">
<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
<jta-data-source>jdbc/jbpm-ds</jta-data-source>
<!-- Use this if you are using JPA1 / Hibernate3 -->
<mapping-file>META-INF/JBPMorm.xml</mapping-file>
<mapping-file>META-INF/ProcessInstanceInfo.hbm.xml</mapping-file>
<!-- Use this if you are using JPA2 / Hibernate4 -->
<!--mapping-file>META-INF/JBPMorm-JPA2.xml</mapping-file-->
<class>org.drools.persistence.info.SessionInfo</class>
<class>org.jbpm.persistence.processinstance.ProcessInstanceInfo</class>
<class>org.drools.persistence.info.WorkItemInfo</class>
<class>org.jbpm.process.audit.ProcessInstanceLog</class>
<class>org.jbpm.process.audit.NodeInstanceLog</class>
<class>org.jbpm.process.audit.VariableInstanceLog</class>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.max_fetch_depth" value="3"/>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update"/>
<property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="false"/>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect"/>
<property name="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class" value="org.hibernate.transaction.BTMTransactionManagerLookup" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>