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1. Your application has no persistence and do not interact with transactional resources like messaging, legacy interfaces etc.
2. The application is used only by one user in sequential way in a single thread.
   
3. It only reads the data and no one writes or if it only writes the data, and no one reads :-).
   
4. The access to persistent storage, backend resources is performed in one (business) method.
   
5. You don't need the "Unit Of Work" abstraction. So it is no problem if the application dies between method invocations and the data is partly processed.
6. It's ok, if other applications, users etc. see the unfinished (uncommitted) activities in their applications.

You know such an application? :-). I hear from time time statements like: "This is just a report - so I don't need transactions - I'm only reading the data". In this particular case you would access the database without a defined transaction and especially isolation - so you will basically see a snapshot of the database (especially uncommitted changes).

Even if you totally ignore the transactions - you will still get the "Green Bar" in most cases. This is probably the reason, why transactions are often in fact ignored ...until the production :-).

Posted at 11:04AM Jun 29, 2008 by Adam Bien in Java EE 5 Architectures And Idioms  |  Kommentare[3]

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