You use explicit transactions when you need to explicitly control the transactional units of work. To do this, you use additional services, known as built-in services, in your flow.

A transaction context starts when the pub.art.transaction.startTransaction() service is executed. The transaction context is completed when either the pub.art.transaction.commitTransaction() or pub.art.transaction.rollbackTransaction() service is executed. As with implicit transactions, a single transaction context can contain no more than one LOCAL_TRANSACTION connection.

A new explicit transaction context can be started within a transaction context, provided that you ensure that the transactions within the transaction context are completed in the reverse order they were started-that is, the last transaction to start should be the first transaction to complete, and so forth.

For example, consider the following is a valid construct:

The following example shows an invalid construct:

For information about designing and using flows, see the webMethods Service Development Help for your release. For more information about transaction types, see Transaction Management of Oracle Apps Adapter Connections.