Local Transaction Mode means that you operate within a session context. With this a session is opened, and any updates (inserts, modifications and deletions) are not automatically committed to the database. This means that you can control if these update(s) are to be committed or rolled back (by using commit() and rollback() methods of the TLocalTransaction interface).
This is orthogonal to Auto Commit Mode which is the default with the Tamino for Java API. In this mode there is no session context so any updates are automatically committed so there is no commit or rollback in this scenario.
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