How to setup XADisk (XA enterprise transaction) in JBoss EAP6.1 - jboss

I want to setup JBoss EAP6.1 to use XADisk in XA enterprise transaction. XADisk allows file system transactions.
What should I do to setup this as XA enterprise transaction. XADisk has also RAR- resource archive for download on creator homepage.
Later I want to use XADisk and database in one transaction in EJB (JavaEE 6).
So far I've found many examples for configuring JDBC XA-Datasources, but XADisk is not the one.
link to XADisk homepage
EDIT: Thanks to #Gimby for his hint.

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I published my solution as a multi RDBMS implementation (oracle, mysql, postgresl, sqlserver) to solve simple database federation needs, supporting bcrypt and several types of hashes.
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I want to create a Spring Boot REST Web Service and deploy and publish it in Traditional Websphere 9 Application Server. Is it possible ?
What all challenges I might encounter? Can someone please provide me few pointers for reference?
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Are you looking for something like this?
http://www.adeveloperdiary.com/java/spring-boot/deploy-spring-boot-application-ibm-liberty-8-5/

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Currently our JDBC DataSource is configured as Resource-local, rather than Transactional, and after some searching, everyone recommends to use Transactional, which requires the use of a JTA provider. No real justification is used for why I don't just stick with the current scenario where we have a servlet filter catch any unhandled exceptions and rollback the active transaction. Besides that the only one I've found that is just a JTA provider (not with 5 more JEE technologies combined) and is still maintained is Bitronix. The other alternative is to move out of Tomcat and use Glassfish, since it is a full Java EE platform, and we also use JavaMail, JPA and JAX-RS.
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Do synchronous database replication tools and JTA complete each-other, hinder each-other or just perform the same consistency checks twice?
Do we need JTA if we only have one database, but multiple webapp instances?
Do we need JTA if we have multiple database and multiple webapp instances?
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We are planning to migrate to a new WebServer (bye bye Websphere), the main considerations are
transaction management
persistence
message/event handling
maintainability
distributed architecture
MBD/EJB support
We are very happy with TC Server but the only problem is that it does not support EJB's and MDB's and we use them pretty heavily here, I head that you can use TC Server and JBoss together, did anybody try using it that way or is there other way that we can use EJB's and MDB's with TC Server ?
Any help appreciated
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JTA
JPA/Hibernate
JMS and MDB
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