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    Changing the locking policy

     

    CMP locking is described here.

     

    Common mistakes

     

    Trying to use a globally shared instance cache without a real lock

     

    If you DON'T use a real BeanLock implementation like QueuedPessimisticEJBLock then you cannot

    use the global shared instance cache. You need to use the "instance per transaction"

    configuration which will give you commit option C semantics and potentially "MVCC" when used

    with optimistic locking.

     

    Using CMP outside a transaction with a shared cache

     

    Since locks are taken per instance at the transaction level, if you use CMP outside a transaction

    then the locking is undefined (see also the warning paragraph in the spec about using CMP

    outside a transaction).

     

    Basically, if you are doing anything more than read-only semantics you are probably not going to

    get the behaviour you expect.