Comment Re:What was absent before? (Score 2, Informative) 17
CAF and TX support is only a part of the acquisition, JBoss have also acquired the JTA and JTS implementations.
They now have the facility to manage distributed transactions with logging and recovery, locally or via OTS.
See the Arjuna site for more details. http://www.arjuna.com/products/arjunats/index.htm