Universal Messaging is a non-XA resource and manages its own transactions within the boundaries of a single topic or queue, i.e. a local transaction. A local transaction allows multiple messages to be published and/or subscribed to on a single queue or topic and then committed or rolled back.

For transactional behaviour where multiple resources are involved, including non-Universal Messaging resources, it is possible to include Universal Messaging if:

In this instance the rollback or commit may not be properly honoured, as Universal Messaging does not lock the resources identified in the XA Prepare statement.