JBoss acquires XA technology
Today JBoss announced that it has acquired transaction management technology from Arjuna Technologies and HP. They plan on releasing it as open source and integrating it into the application server by the end of Q1 2006.
This is an interesting development because one of the areas where JBoss has always lagged behind the commercial offerings has been distributed transaction management. In particular, the JBoss transaction manager does not perform logging. Distributed XA transactions can still be done, but the lack of logging could lead to data loss if the application server or one of the transactional resources goes down (which kind of defeats the purpose of XA). If this integration works well it could open up opportunities for JBoss in sectors where a commercial app server was the only option.
