Hi,

> "Version 1.5 of the Firebird database, and the accompanying XA-
> compliant JDBC drivers, have been released..."
>
> Are these XA-compliant JDBC drivers the beta version of JayBird?
> or something else.

We do not have XADataSource implementation yet. However, JayBird (our
JDBC driver) is inherently XA-enabled due to native JCA support.
Managed connections implement XAResource interface from JTA specs and
can participate in distributed transactions. But again, this is
available only if you use JCA framework
(org.firebirdsql.jca.FBManagerConnectionFactory class).

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy