Application server-specific integration

Spring’s transaction abstraction is generally application server-agnostic. Additionally, Spring’s JtaTransactionManager class (which can optionally perform a JNDI lookup for the JTA UserTransaction and TransactionManager objects) autodetects the location for the latter object, which varies by application server. Having access to the JTA TransactionManager allows for enhanced transaction semantics — in particular, supporting transaction suspension. See the JtaTransactionManager javadoc for details.

Spring’s JtaTransactionManager is the standard choice to run on Jakarta EE application servers and is known to work on all common servers. Advanced functionality, such as transaction suspension, works on many servers as well (including GlassFish, JBoss and Geronimo) without any special configuration required.