Introduction: ActivitySessions

 

Explore the key concepts pertaining to ActivitySessions. ActivitySessions are a WebSphere extension for reducing the complexity of commitment rules and limitations that are associated with one-phase commit resources.

The ActivitySession service

The ActivitySession service provides an alternative unit-of-work (UOW) scope to that provided by global transaction contexts. An ActivitySession context can be longer-lived than a global transaction context and can encapsulate global transactions.

ActivitySession service application programming interfaces

The ActivitySession service consists of an application programming interface available to Web applications, session EJBs, and J2EE client applications for application-managed demarcation of ActivitySession context.