Atomikos Forum

Hi,

We're looking at interfacing to Websphere MQ (Version 7) using Spring JMS.  We need to support XA transactions and were looking to use Atomikos to do this.

I can see from the wiki that Atomikos handles this through the use of the IBM Extended Transactional Client but what I wanted to know is whether IBM support will recognise this and whether anybody in the community has had any experience of dealing with IBM support when using these technologies?

Thanks

Well,

I am not sure if they (IBM) test against Atomikos compatibility for their releases (they didn't, not sure if they do now), but I can certainly tell you the following:

-IBM supports JMS/XA with their XA client

-we support JMS/XA in our product

-if you have Atomikos _and_ Atomikos support then we will take over the case for you

In practice, this means that even though IBM does not 'support' Atomikos, the fact that they support JMS/XA means that we (Atomikos) can reduce the problem to JMS/XA issues either in their implementation or in ours, and a solution will be possible either way. This has always worked so far, and I see no reason why it wouldn't work in the future.

HTH

Correction:

if you have Atomikos _and_ Atomikos support -> of course I meant IBM _and_ Atomikos support