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<appendix>
 <title>Properties</title>
    This is a list of properties
    <section><title>slice.Names</title>
    <para>
    Mandatory: no
    </para>
    <para>
    Comma-separated list of slice names. The ordering of the name is 
    <emphasis>significant</emphasis>. The distribution policy receives the
    input argument of the slice names in the same order.
    </para>
    <para>
    If unspecified then the list consists of all slices in the persistence unit. 
    The ordering in this case is alphabetical.  
    </para>
    <para>
    Default Value: none
    </para>
    </section>
    
    <section><title>slice.Master</title>
    <para>
    Mandatory: no
    </para>
    <para>
    Name of the master slice. Master slice denotes the slice that is used when 
    primary key is to be generated from a database sequence. Currently, there
    is no provision to use sequence from multiple database slices.
    </para>
    <para>
    Default Value: The first slice in the list of configured slice names. 
    </para>
    </section>
    
    <section><title>slice.Lenient</title>
    <para>
    Mandatory: no
    </para>
    <para>
    Controls the behavior when one or more slice can not be connected.
    If <code>true</code>, the unreachable slices are ignore. If 
    <code>false</code> then any unreachable slice will raise an exception.
    </para>
    <para>
    Default Value: <code>false</code>
    </para> 
    </section>
    
    
    <section><title>slice.TransactionManager</title>
    <para>
    Mandatory: no
    </para>
    <para>
    Pre-defined alias or fully-qualified class name of a Transaction Manager 
    (implements <classname>javax.transaction.TransactionManager</classname>)
    used to coordinate transaction. Pre-defined aliases are <code>naive</code>,
    <code>xa</code> and <code>jndi</code>.
    </para>
    <para>
    <code>naive</code> denotes 
    </para>
    <para>
    Default Value: <code>naive</code>
    </para>
    <para>
    
    </para>
    </section>
</appendix>