Narayana (e.g. JBoss) JTA with Geode/GemFire

Use Narayana JTA provider as global transaction manager to coordinate Geode/GemFire cache transactions along with JPA/JDBC and/or JMS resources.

Narayana is light-weight (e.g. out-of-container), embeddable global transaction manager. Narayana is JTA compliant and can be integrated with Geode/GemFire to perform XA transaction across Geode, JPA/JDBC and JMS operations.

Also Narayana supports Last Resource Commit Optiomization allowing with Geode/GemFire transactions to be run as last resources.

The narayana-geode extends the existing Geode JTA support by integrating a standalone (open-source) JTA provider and enabling LRCO for transaction-atomicity and data-consistency. The utility includes two sub-projects:

The Apache Geode(GemFire) + Narayana JTA = Global Transactions with Last-Resource Optimization explains the problem, the implemented solution and provides some how-use tips.

Narayana Geode/Gemfire Core

The narayana-geode-core library uses minimal external dependencies. Only Narayana and the Apache Geode/Gemfire APIs are needed (e.g. no dependencies on Spring or Spring Data Gemfire and so.) The narayana-geode-core README explains how to use the core utility.

Narayana Geode/Gemfire SpringBoot

The narayana-geode-springboot library extends narayana-geode-core to provide seamless integration with Spring Boot and Spring Data Gemfire (SDG).

The narayana-geode-springboot README explains how to use the core utility.

Quick Start

Show how to bootstrap a Spring Boot application that uses Narayana to manage global transactions between JPA and Gemfire (8.2.x).

• Use the start.spring.io link to generate new Spring Boot application, pre-configured with Narayana, JPA, H2 and Gemfire 8.2.x starters.

• Add narayana-gemfire82-springboot to the POM to enable the Narayana/Gemfire 8.2.x integration. The dependency are resolved from Maven Central

<dependency>
   <groupId>io.datalake.geode.jta</groupId>
   <artifactId>narayana-gemfire82-springboot</artifactId>
   <version>0.1.11</version>
</dependency>

• Enable the Transaction Management and Geode Narayana JTA.

 @SpringBootApplication
 @EnableGeodeNarayanaJta
 @EnableTransactionManagement(order = 1)
 public class SampleNarayanaApplication implements CommandLineRunner {   ... }

• Use the Spring Data idioms to create and configure JPA and Geode repositories.

public interface MyJpaRepository extends CrudRepository<JpaCustomer, Long> {...}
public interface MyGeodeRepository extends CrudRepository<GeodeCustomer, Long> {...}

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableJpaRepositories(basePackageClasses = JpaCustomer.class)
@EnableGemfireRepositories(basePackageClasses = GeodeCustomer.class)
...

• Use the @Transactional Spring idioms to participate in a distributed transactions

@Transactional
public void addNewCustomer(String firstName, String lastName) {
   jpaRepository.save(new JpaCustomer(firstName, lastName));
   geodeRepository.save(new GeodeCustomer(666L, firstName, lastName));
}

POM dependencies

All narayana-geode dependencies can be resolved from Maven Central: io.datalake.geode.jta

Currently narayana-geode support Gemfire 8.2.x, Gemfire 9.0.x and Geode 1.1.x. See matrix for details:

Build

To build the projects run

./mvn clean install