1 /* 2 * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source 3 * Copyright 2005, JBoss Inc., and individual contributors as indicated 4 * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a 5 * full listing of individual contributors. 6 * 7 * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 8 * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 9 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of 10 * the License, or (at your option) any later version. 11 * 12 * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 15 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 16 * 17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 18 * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free 19 * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 20 * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. 21 */ 22 package org.jboss.tm; 23 24 import javax.transaction.Transaction; 25 26 27 /** 28 * Implementations of this interface are used for importing a transaction 29 * propagation context into the transaction manager. 30 * 31 * @see TransactionPropagationContextFactory 32 * @author <a HREF="mailto:osh@sparre.dk">Ole Husgaard</a> 33 * @version $Revision: 37459 $ 34 */ 35 public interface TransactionPropagationContextImporter 36 { 37 /** 38 * Import the transaction propagation context into the transaction 39 * manager, and return the resulting transaction. 40 * If this transaction propagation context has already been imported 41 * into the transaction manager, this method simply returns the 42 * <code>Transaction</code> representing the transaction propagation 43 * context in the local VM. 44 * Returns <code>null</code> if the transaction propagation context is 45 * <code>null</code>, or if it represents a <code>null</code> transaction. 46 */ 47 public Transaction importTransactionPropagationContext(Object tpc); 48 } 49 50