/*
 * Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
 */

package javax.sql;

import java.sql.*;


/**
 * <P>An XAConnection object provides support for distributed 
 * transactions.  An XAConnection may be enlisted in a distributed
 * transaction by means of an XAResource object.
 */

public interface XAConnection extends PooledConnection {


  /**
   * <P>Return an XA resource to the caller.
   *
   * @return the XAResource
   * @exception SQLException if a database-access error occurs
   */
  javax.transaction.xa.XAResource getXAResource() throws SQLException;

 }