Day: 21 July 2011

  • International Routing Department Scam

    There is a scam doing the rounds that tries to infect your computer or get you to phone a premium rate number for computer support. It goes something like this: You get a phone call from an Indian sounding guy called Edward / Steve / John or something equally improbably. They claim that your computer…

  • Local transaction already has 1 non-XA Resource

    While developing a bit of functionality that transferred data from one database to another in my current JEE 6 web application I came upon the exception below. Surprisingly for exceptions from deep within system this one is actually quite informative if you understand what it’s saying: the key is knowing that XA means distributed transaction. Transactions can be…