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*/
package com.sun.sgs.service;
/**
* Defines a <code>TransactionParticipant</code> that does not maintain durable
* persistent state of its own, but instead relies on other participants to
* store any persistent state that it needs. Because these participants do not
* need to make any persistent changes on commit or abort, the transaction
* coordinator is not required to inform these participants of the status of a
* prepared transaction if it can be certain that the participant has crashed.
* Transaction coordinators can use this information to optimize their
* implementation of the two phase commit protocol.
*/
public interface NonDurableTransactionParticipant
extends TransactionParticipant
{
}