CompensationHandler (IBM WebSphere Application Server, Release 8.5)

```
public interface CompensationHandler
```
A CompensationHandler provides compensation logic for the unit of work (UOW) with which the Business Activity is associated. It uses Serializable objects for its compensation data.
If the CompensationHandler interface is also implemented and the compensationData implements the DataObject interface, then the methods of the CompensationHandler interface will be called in preference to the methods on this interface.

Method Summary

Methods
Modifier and Type	Method and Description
`void`	`close(java.io.Serializable compensationData)` Invoked upon successful completion of the Business Activity, if this CompensationHandler has been added to the business Activity context via the `UserBusinessActivity` interface and the CompensationHandler was active on completion of the Business Activity.
`void`	`compensate(java.io.Serializable compensationData)` Invoked upon unsuccessful completion, if this CompensationHandler has been added to the Business Activity context via the `UserBusinessActivity` interface and the CompensationHandler was active on completion of the Business Activity.

- Method Detail
  - close
```
void close(java.io.Serializable compensationData)
           throws RetryCompensationHandlerException,
                  CompensationHandlerFailedException
```
    Invoked upon successful completion of the Business Activity, if this CompensationHandler has been added to the business Activity context via the UserBusinessActivity interface and the CompensationHandler was active on completion of the Business Activity. A CompensationHandler implementation must be able to tolerate this method being driven more than once during the completion or recovery of a business activity. An implementation of a CompensationHandler must not make any assumptions about the order in which CompensationHandlers are driven during the completion or recovery of a business activity.
    
    Throws:
    
    RetryCompensationHandlerException - thrown if the participant cannot process its close implementation at that time. The compensation handler will be retried.
    
    CompensationHandlerFailedException - thrown if the participant cannot process its close implementation due to an unrecoverable error.
  - compensate
```
void compensate(java.io.Serializable compensationData)
                throws RetryCompensationHandlerException,
                       CompensationHandlerFailedException
```
    Invoked upon unsuccessful completion, if this CompensationHandler has been added to the Business Activity context via the UserBusinessActivity interface and the CompensationHandler was active on completion of the Business Activity. A CompensationHandler implementation must be able to tolerate this method being driven more than once during the completion or recovery of a business activity. An implementation of a CompensationHandler must not make any assumptions about the order in which CompensationHandlers are driven during the completion or recovery of a business activity.
    
    Throws:
    
    RetryCompensationHandlerException - thrown if the participant cannot process its compensate implementation at that time. The compensator will be retried.
    
    CompensationHandlerFailedException - thrown if the participant cannot process its compensate implementation due to an unrecoverable error.

close

compensate