11.2.13. About Nested Transactions

Benefits of Nested Transactions

Fault Isolation

If a subtransaction rolls back, perhaps because an object it is using fails, the enclosing transaction does not need to roll back.

Modularity

If a transaction is already associated with a call when a new transaction begins, the new transaction is nested within it. Therefore, if you know that an object requires transactions, you can create them within the object. If the object's methods are invoked without a client transaction, then the object's transactions are top-level. Otherwise, they are nested within the scope of the client's transactions. Likewise, a client does not need to know whether an object is transactional. It can begin its own transaction.