As we said earlier, data is an important part of enterprise applications. Creating and managing data is critical. It is also necessary to maintain the integrity of the data while performing operations.
Transactions are sets of operations that can be carried out on the entities. Transaction management essentially involves managing the life cycle of the entities to maintain the integrity of the data. When a transaction executes a set of operations, it will either succeed or be rolled back if there are any failures. There is no way in which half the operations will execute, leaving the data in an inconsistent state.
Let's take a look at how to handle transactions in Java EE applications. We will discuss how we can use the Java Transaction API with both EJBs and CDI-managed beans using the @Transactional and @TransactionAttribute annotations. We will also look at...