These topics provide information about developing WebSphere application
components to use transactions
About this task
The way that applications use transactions depends on the type
of application component, as follows:
- A session bean can either use container-managed transactions (where the
bean delegates management of transactions to the container) or bean-managed
transactions (component-managed transactions where the bean manages transactions
itself).
- Entity beans use container-managed transactions.
- Web components (servlets) and application client components use component-managed
transactions.
Use the following tasks to develop WebSphere application components that
use transactions: