13.11Further Resources

For more information about the Spring Framework’s transaction support:

• Distributed transactions in Spring, with and without XAis a JavaWorld presentation in which Spring’s David Syer guides you through seven patterns for distributed transactions in Spring applications, three of them with XA and four without.

• Java Transaction Design Strategiesis a book available fromInfoQthat provides a well-paced introduction to transactions in Java. It also includes side-by-side examples of how to configure and use transactions with both the Spring Framework and EJB3.