External dirty transaction reads

Folks,

Need a little help. I know ozone recommends not using explicit
transactions, but I have a case where I would like to use them.

I have searched the mailing list, google, and the code, but was unable
to find a way to do dirty transaction reads (i.e. a non-blocking object
read if someone has a transaction open on this object).

Is there a way in ozone to do something like this? Or has someone
written an extension to do this?

And lastly. Has anyone written something that will time out transactions
on the server side (user configurable), and/or has anyone done something
that will abort a transaction if a client connection is broken?

Greatly appreciate any advice.

Thanks and Regards,

- Tom



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