A History of Extended Transactions

Topics

WS Standards,

Web Services,

SOA,

OASIS,

Transactions Processing,

Architecture,

ACID,

Enterprise Architecture,

Database,

WS-CAF,

WS-TX,

Specifications,

OASIS_BTP,

Transactions

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.

•  By  Mark Little on May 10, 2006,
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