WSTx (Web Services Transactions)

• WS-Coordination
• WS-AtomicTransaction
• WS-BusinessActivity

The standards were created to accommodate two typical transaction patterns involving multiple, distributed software components and services:

1. individual atomic transactions that represent the building blocks for more complex transactions among peers and partners
2. Web-based interactions that result in the exchange of goods, information, or services, usually called business activities.

WSTx standards are overseen by a technical committee of the same name at OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). The technical committee is staffed with vendors and users of Web services technologies. On its Web pages, the committee describes its agenda as: "…to define a set of protocols to coordinate the outcomes of distributed application actions." Vendors involved in the WSTx committee include Adobe, BEA Systems, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and TIBCO, among numerous others.

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More resources from around the web: - The XML Cover Pages offer more information about WSTx - IBM maintains information about WSTx and links to the specifications. - On SearchSOA.com, Frank Teti explains 'Using Web services as distributed transactions and the role of XA.'

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