Enterprise Server Acting as a Resource Manager

Java EE clients run in a Java EE application server such as IBM WebSphere or Oracle WebLogic. When a service is processing requests from a Java EE client, the Java EE application server can be a transaction manager coordinating updates to all the resources involved in a transaction. In this situation, the enterprise server instance behaves like a resource manager and responds to commit and rollback requests from the Java EE application server, whether the COBOL service is container-managed or application-managed.