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Stateful Interactions in Web Services

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

In July 2003 a consortium of Web services vendors released the Web services Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF) to the community. WS-CAF is comprised of three specifications that together provide a means of reliably composing individual Web services into larger aggregate applications.

Introducing WS-CAF - More than just transactions

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 EST

Web services have become the integration platform of choice for enterprise applications. Those applications by the very nature of their enterprise-scale components can be complex in structure, which is compounded by the need to share common data or context across business processes supported by those applications.

Introducing WS-Transaction Part 1

Fri, 23 May 2003 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Introducing WS-Coordination

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Business Transaction Protocol: Transactions for a New Age

Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:00:00 EDT

Use of atomic transactions is a well-known technique for guaranteeing consistency in the presence of failures. The ACID properties of atomic transactions (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) ensure that even in complex business applications consistency of state is preserved.

The Business Transaction Protocol: Transactions for a New Age

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:00:00 EDT

Atomic transactions are a well-known technique for guaranteeing consistency in the presence of failures. The ACID properties of atomic transactions ensure that, even in complex business applications, consistency of state is preserved.

End-to-End Transactionality

Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:00:00 EST

In addition, it was suggested that traditional Online Transaction Processing systems (OLTP) don’t suffer from such limitations, rendering them more suitable for the emerging e-commerce applications that may require such guarantees.