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<chapter id="ref_guide_deploy">
    <title>
        Deployment
    </title>
    <para>
OpenJPA deployment includes choosing a factory deployment strategy, and in a
managed environment, optionally integrating with your application server's
managed and XA transactions. This chapter examines each aspect of deployment in
turn.
    </para>
    <section id="ref_guide_deploy_factory">
        <title>
            Factory Deployment
        </title>
        <para>
OpenJPA offers two <classname>EntityManagerFactory</classname>
deployment options.
        </para>
        <section id="ref_guide_deploy_factory_standalone">
            <title>
                Standalone Deployment
            </title>
            <indexterm zone="ref_guide_deploy_factory_standalone">
                <primary>
                    deployment
                </primary>
                <secondary>
                    standalone
                </secondary>
                <seealso>
                    Persistence
                </seealso>
            </indexterm>
            <para>
The JPA Overview describes the <classname>javax.persistence.Persistence
</classname> class. You can use <classname>Persistence</classname> to obtain
<classname>EntityManagerFactory</classname> instances, as demonstrated in
<xref linkend="jpa_overview_persistence"/>. OpenJPA also extends
<classname>Persistence</classname> to add additional <classname>
EntityManagerFactory</classname> creation methods. The <classname>
org.apache.openjpa.persistence.OpenJPAPersistence</classname> class
<ulink url="../javadoc/org/apache/openjpa/persistence/OpenJPAPersistence.html">
Javadoc</ulink> details these extensions.
            </para>
            <para>
After obtaining the factory, you can cache it for all <classname>
EntityManager</classname> creation duties.  OpenJPA factories support being 
bound to JNDI as well.
            </para>
        </section>
        <section id="ref_guide_deploy_inject">
            <title>
                EntityManager Injection
            </title>
            <para>
Java EE 5 application servers allow you to <emphasis>inject</emphasis> 
entity managers into your session beans using the <literal>PersistenceContext
</literal> annotation.  See your application server documentation for details.
            </para>
        </section>
    </section>
	<section id="ref_guide_enterprise_trans">
		<title>
            Integrating with the Transaction Manager
        </title>
		<indexterm zone="ref_guide_enterprise_trans">
			<primary>
                transactions
            </primary>
			<secondary>
                managed
            </secondary>
		</indexterm>
		<indexterm zone="ref_guide_enterprise_trans">
			<primary>
                TransactionManager
            </primary>
			<secondary>
                integration
            </secondary>
		</indexterm>
		<indexterm>
			<primary>
                managed transactions
            </primary>
			<see>
                transactions
            </see>
		</indexterm>
		<indexterm>
            <primary>
                TransactionMode
            </primary>
        </indexterm>
		<para>
OpenJPA <classname>EntityManager</classname>s have the ability to automatically
synchronize their transactions with an external transaction manager.  Whether 
or not <classname>EntityManager</classname>s from a given <classname>
EntityManagerFactory</classname> exhibit this behavior by default depends on 
the transaction type you set for the factory's persistence unit in
your <filename>persistence.xml</filename> file.  OpenJPA uses the given
transaction type internally to set the
<link linkend="openjpa.TransactionMode"><literal>openjpa.TransactionMode
</literal></link> configuration property.  This property accepts the following
modes:
        </para>
		<itemizedlist> 
			<listitem>
				<para>
<literal>local</literal>: Perform transaction operations locally.
				</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para>
<literal>managed</literal>: Integrate with the application server's managed 
global transactions.  
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</itemizedlist> 
        <para>
You can override the global transaction mode setting when you obtain an
<classname>EntityManager</classname> using the 
<ulink url="http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/persistence/EntityManagerFactory.html">
<classname>EntityManagerFactory</classname></ulink>'s
<methodname>createEntityManager(Map props)</methodname> method.  Simply set the
<literal>openjpa.TransactionMode</literal> key of the given <classname>Map
</classname> to the desired value.  
		</para>
        <note>
            <para>
You can also override the <literal>openjpa.ConnectionUserName</literal>,
<literal>openjpa.ConnectionPassword</literal>, and <literal>
openjpa.ConnectionRetainMode</literal> settings using the given <classname>
Map</classname>. 
            </para>
        </note>
		<para>
<indexterm><primary>ManagedRuntime</primary></indexterm>
In order to use global transactions, OpenJPA must be able to access the 
application server's <classname>
javax.transaction.TransactionManager</classname>.  OpenJPA can automatically 
discover the transaction manager for most major application servers.  
Occasionally, however, you might have to point OpenJPA to the transaction 
manager for an unrecognized or non-standard application server setup.  This is 
accomplished through the <link linkend="openjpa.ManagedRuntime"><literal>
openjpa.ManagedRuntime</literal></link> configuration property.  This
property describes an 
<ulink url="../javadoc/org/apache/openjpa/ee/ManagedRuntime.html"><classname>
org.apache.openjpa.ee.ManagedRuntime</classname></ulink> implementation to use
for transaction manager discovery.  You can specify your own implementation, 
or use one of the built-ins:
		</para>
		<itemizedlist>
			<listitem>
				<para>
<literal>auto</literal>: This is the default.  It is an alias for the
<ulink url="../javadoc/org/apache/openjpa/ee/AutomaticManagedRuntime.html">
<classname>org.apache.openjpa.ee.AutomaticManagedRuntime</classname></ulink>
class.  This managed runtime is able to automatically integrate with several 
common application servers.
				</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para>
<literal>invocation</literal>: An alias for the 
<ulink url="../javadoc/org/apache/openjpa/ee/InvocationManagedRuntime.html">
<classname>org.apache.openjpa.ee.InvocationManagedRuntime</classname></ulink>
class.  You can configure this runtime to invoke any static
method in order to obtain the appserver's transaction manager.
				</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para>
<literal>jndi</literal>: An alias for the 
<ulink url="../javadoc/org/apache/openjpa/ee/JNDIManagedRuntime.html">
<classname>org.apache.openjpa.ee.JNDIManagedRuntime</classname></ulink>
class.  You can configure this runtime to look up the transaction manager at 
any JNDI location.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</itemizedlist>
		<para>
See the Javadoc for of each class for details on the bean properties 
you can pass to these plugins in your configuration string.  
		</para>
		<example id="ref_guide_enterprise_transex">
			<title>Configuring Transaction Manager Integration</title>
<programlisting>
<![CDATA[<property name="openjpa.TransactionMode" value="managed"/>
<property name="openjpa.ManagedRuntime" value="jndi(TransactionManagerName=java:/TransactionManager)"/>]]>
</programlisting>
		</example>
	</section>
    <section id="ref_guide_enterprise_xa">
        <title>
            XA Transactions
        </title>
        <indexterm zone="ref_guide_enterprise_xa">
            <primary>
                transactions
            </primary>
            <secondary>
                XA
            </secondary>
        </indexterm>
        <indexterm>
            <primary>
                XA transactions
            </primary>
            <see>
                transactions
            </see>
        </indexterm>
        <para>
The X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing (X/Open DTP) model, designed by
<ulink url="http://www.xopen.org">Open Group</ulink> (a vendor consortium),
defines a standard communication architecture that provides the following:
        </para>
        <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
                <para>
Concurrent execution of applications on shared resources.
                </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>
Coordination of transactions across applications.
                </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>
Components, interfaces, and protocols that define the architecture and provide
portability of applications.
                </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>
Atomicity of transaction systems.
                </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>
Single-thread control and sequential function-calling.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
        <para>
The X/Open DTP XA standard defines the application programming interfaces that a
resource manager uses to communicate with a transaction manager. The XA
interfaces enable resource managers to join transactions, to perform two-phase
commit, and to recover in-doubt transactions following a failure.
        </para>
        <section id="ref_guide_enterprise_xa_req">
            <title>
                Using OpenJPA with XA Transactions
            </title>
            <para>
OpenJPA supports XA-compliant transactions when used in a properly configured
managed environment. The following components are required:
            </para>
            <itemizedlist>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
A managed environment that provides an XA compliant transaction manager.
Examples of this are application servers such as WebLogic or JBoss.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
Instances of a <classname>javax.sql.XADataSource</classname> for each of the
<classname>DataSource</classname>s that OpenJPA will use.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </itemizedlist>
            <para>
Given these components, setting up OpenJPA to participate in distributed
transactions is a simple two-step process:
            </para>
            <orderedlist>
				<listitem>
					<para>
Integrate OpenJPA with your application server's transaction manager, as 
detailed in <xref linkend="ref_guide_enterprise_trans"/> above.
					</para>
				</listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
Point OpenJPA at an enlisted <classname>XADataSource</classname>, and configure
a second non-enlisted data source. See
<xref linkend="ref_guide_dbsetup_thirdparty_enlist"/>.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </orderedlist>
        </section>
    </section>
</chapter>