Hi All, I'm entering the world of distributed transactions for the first time. We are using the Websphere as the transaction manager. The developers have asked to have the JVM and the JAVA_XA package. I'm struggling to find any decent docs on JAVA_XA. In particular do we really need this for Oracle to participate in (rather than manage) an XA transaction? Any pointers to docs about this configuration (Oracle/Websphere/XA) for a DBA would be very welcome. Many thanks again! Charlotte ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l