Deltaspike alternative TransactionStrategy issue

Question

In my wildfly swarm application I would like to use deltaspike with the data module, JPA and JTA.

I have defined my beans.xml as this to use EnvironmentAwareTransactionStrategy as TransactionStrategy.

<beans xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/beans_1_1.xsd"
version="1.1" bean-discovery-mode="all">
<alternatives>
    <class>org.apache.deltaspike.jpa.impl.transaction.EnvironmentAwareTransactionStrategy</class>
</alternatives>

However when I run my app this exception is thrown:

at org.hibernate.jpa.spi.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.getTransaction(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:1333)
at org.apache.deltaspike.jpa.impl.transaction.ResourceLocalTransactionStrategy.getTransaction(ResourceLocalTransactionStrategy.java:372)
at org.apache.deltaspike.jpa.impl.transaction.ResourceLocalTransactionStrategy.rollbackAllTransactions(ResourceLocalTransactionStrategy.java:338)
at org.apache.deltaspike.jpa.impl.transaction.ResourceLocalTransactionStrategy.execute(ResourceLocalTransactionStrategy.java:155)
at org.apache.deltaspike.jpa.impl.transaction.TransactionalInterceptor.executeInTransaction(TransactionalInterceptor.java:57)

CDI used the default TransactionStrategy (ResourceLocalTransactionStrategy) instead of the alternative one (EnvironmentAwareTransactionStrategy) defined in my beans.xml.

The file beans.xml is well located in src/main/resources/META-INF and in my pom.xml I have

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.wildfly.swarm</groupId>
        <artifactId>datasources</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.wildfly.swarm</groupId>
        <artifactId>jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.wildfly.swarm</groupId>
        <artifactId>cdi</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.deltaspike.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>deltaspike-core-api</artifactId>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.deltaspike.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>deltaspike-core-impl</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.deltaspike.modules</groupId>
        <artifactId>deltaspike-data-module-api</artifactId>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.deltaspike.modules</groupId>
        <artifactId>deltaspike-data-module-impl</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.deltaspike.modules</groupId>
        <artifactId>deltaspike-jpa-module-api</artifactId>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.deltaspike.modules</groupId>
        <artifactId>deltaspike-jpa-module-impl</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Deltaspike gives use more explainations:

https://deltaspike.apache.org/documentation/jpa.html

In case of some versions of Weld - including several versions of JBoss EAP/Wildfly and Websphere Liberty Profile - or OpenWebBeans in BDA mode - which is not the default one, you have to configure it as a global alternative instead of an alternative in beans.xml

and

https://deltaspike.apache.org/documentation/spi.html#GlobalAlternative

They propose to use the apache-deltaspike.properties as a workaround.

Answer 2

I managed to make it works by following the example available here: https://github.com/wildfly-swarm/wildfly-swarm-examples/tree/master/jaxrs/jaxrs-deltaspike-data

I have made the following action:

1/ removed alternatives in beans.xml

2/ add apache-deltaspike.properties in src/main/resources/META-INF containing globalAlternatives.org.apache.deltaspike.jpa.spi.transaction.TransactionStrategy=org.apache.deltaspike.jpa.impl.transaction.ContainerManagedTransactionStrategy