Introducting WS-Transaction

Abstract

In July 2002, BEA, IBM, and Microsoft released a trio of specifications designed to support business transactions over Web services. These specifications, BPEL4WS, WS-Transaction, and WS-Coordination, together form the bedrock for reliably choreographing Web services-based applications, providing business process management, transactional integrity, and generic coordination facilities respectively. In our previous article, we introduced WS-Coordination, a generic coordination framework for Web services and showed how the WS-Coordination protocol can be augmented to support coordination in arbitrary application domains. This article introduces the first publicly available WS-Coordination based protocol: Web Services Transaction, and shows how WS-Transaction provides atomic transactional coordination for Web services.

Publication
Web Services Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 6, June 2003. Continued Vol. 3, Issue 7, June 2003.
Dr. Jim Webber
Dr. Jim Webber
Chief Scientist

I’m a computer scientist interested in fault-tolerance for graph databases.