WS-AtomicTransaction Facts

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What is WS-AtomicTransaction?

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Secure, Reliable, Transacted Web Services [FS03]
  • defines a specific set of protocols that plug into the WS-Coordination model to implement traditional two-phase atomic transaction protocols. It is important to note that the atomic, two-phase model is only with respect to the services involved. Sites or infrastructure offering services may advertise two-phase commit, but use some other intraenterprise model like compensation or versioning. This freedom makes a simple two-phase commit model more useful for longrunning Internet computations.