Various Types of Transactions TIBCO supports

TIBCO BusinessWorks offers a variety of types of transactions that can be used in different situations. You can use the type of transaction that suits the needs of your integration project. When you create a transaction group, you must specify the type of transaction.

Latest TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks supports the following types of transactions:

•	JDBC Transaction
•	Java Transaction API (JTA) UserTransaction
•	XA Transaction
•	JMS Local Transaction

A transaction group can have only one transaction type. The activities that can participate in the transaction are determined by the transaction type, the configuration of the activity, and the type of the activity. For example, only JDBC activities whose JDBC Connection type is "JDBC" can participate in a JDBC transaction.

Below activities are supported in JTA Transaction

The Java Transaction API (JTA) UserTransaction type allows below activities to participate in transactions.

1. JDBC
2. JMS
3. ActiveEnterprise Adapter (using JMS transports)
4. EJB activities

Below activities are supported in XA Transaction

The XA Transaction type allows below activities to participate in transactions.

1. JDBC activities
2. ActiveEnterprise Adapter activities that use the JMS transport
3. JMS activities

Note:

**For JMS activities and ActiveEnterprise Adapter activities, request/reply operations cannot participate in an XA transaction.

**EJB activities cannot participate in an XA Transaction group.