A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, identify a component that initiates a transaction in an application, calculate a set of persistent objects potentially enlisted by the transaction, and calculate a set of potential operations that the transaction may perform with respect to each of the potentially enlisted persistent objects. The transaction is then optimized based on a configuration, where the configuration is based on the set of potential operations that the transaction may perform with respect to each of the potentially enlisted persistent objects. If a single invocation of the component initiates more than one transaction, actions taken by the set of persistent objects are collapsed into a collapsed set, and policies relevant to the collapsed set are associated with a unique task name.