Configure a server to use business activity support

Business activity support provides compensation for activities such as sending an e-mail, which can be difficult or impossible to roll back atomically. With this compensation, applications on disparate systems can coordinate activities that are more loosely coupled than atomic transactions. To use the business activity support first enable it on each server that you plan to use.

Overview

If you have an application component that uses the business activity support, enable the support on each server that runs the application.

Procedure

1. In the administrative console, click Servers > Application servers > server_name > [Container Settings] Container Services > Compensation Service.

2. Select the Enable service at server startup check box.

3. If required, modify the compensation handler retry interval and limit. These values control the frequency with which the CompensationHandler handler compensate and close methods are retried, when either throw a RetryCompensationHandlerException exception, and the number of times that these methods are retried.

4. Save your changes to the master configuration.

5. Repeat the previous steps for each server that you plan to use.

6. Restart all the servers for the changes to take effect.

Results

What to do next

Note: Applications can exploit the business activity support only if you deploy them to a WebSphere Application Server V6.1 server. Applications cannot use the business activity support if you deploy them to a cluster that includes WebSphere Application Server V6.0.x servers.

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