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Voca, UK's largest payment processing engine running Spring

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Architecture,
Java
Topics
ESB,
Enterprise Architecture,
Transactions Processing

In this presentation from QCon London, William Soo and Meeraj Kunnumpurath discuss the Voca transaction processing system architecture, the previous Mainframe-based architecture, architectural challenges and requirements, the new Spring and J2EE-based architecture, upcoming challenges for Voca, and technologies to watch for in the future.

Addressing Doubts about REST

Community
SOA
Topics
Web Services,
Design

Invariably, learning about REST means that you’ll end up wondering just how applicable the concept really isbeyond introductory, “Hello, World”-level stuff. In this article, Stefan Tilkov addresses 10 of the most common doubts people have about REST when they start exploring it, especially if they have a strong background in the architectural approach behind SOAP/WSDL-based Web services.

A History of Extended Transactions

Community
SOA
Topics
WS Standards,
Transactions Processing

ACID transactions don't work for long-lived use cases. This article documents historic approaches taken in the CORBA and J2EE communities toward extended transactions, how SOA is a more natural fit, and why WS-TX & WS-CAF may finally hold the answer.

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Should developers write their own transaction coordination logic?

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Architecture,
SOA
Topics
WS Standards,
Transactions Processing,
Web Services,
Choreography,
Business Process Management

In a recent discussion Mark Little and Greg Pavlik discuss whether transaction coordinators and transaction protocols are necessary in the context of widely distributed units of work. Isn't the knowledge of state alignment patterns enough?

File System Transactions - still a problem area?

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Architecture,
.NET,
Java
Topics
Transactions Processing

Historically transaction-processing systems have relied primarily, if not solely, on databases to handle the ACID aspects of any IO activities that required to be transactional. The support for transactions for file system operations has been weak at either the libraries/frameworks, languages or file system levels. Lately, this situation is starting to show signs of improvement.

Atomikos TransactionsEssentials: JTA/XA transaction management outside of Java EE

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Java,
SOA
Topics
Transactions Processing,
Open Source

Atomikos TransactionsEssentials, a Java-based transaction manager, just released version 3.2. InfoQ spoke with Atomikos CTO Guy Pardon to learn more about this release, and also about TransactionsEssentials and third-party transaction managers in general.

Fault Tolerance and the Grid

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Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Transactions Processing,
Grid Computing

Arjuna Technologies, the company behind the world's first Java transaction service and Web Services transactions implementations, has turned its attention to the world of the Grid. What's involved in developing reliable Grid applications and are the current Data Grid infrastructures really up to the job?

WS-TX 1.1 standard announcement

Community
SOA
Topics
Transactions Processing,
Web Services

OASIS announces WS-TX 1.1 as a standard: it's now official.

Sun demonstrates WS-AT interoperability with Microsoft

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SOA
Topics
WS Standards,
Java plus .NET Integration,
Transactions Processing,
Web Services

Sun's latest Project Tango release includes WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-Coordination support. They also have demonstrated interoperability .NET 3.0 clients.