The CORBA Activity Service Framework for Supporting Extended Transactions

Although it has long been realised that ACID transactions by themselves are not adequate for structuring long-lived applications and much research work has been done on developing specific extended transaction models, no middleware support for building extended transactions is currently available and the situation remains that a programmer often has to develop application specific mechanisms. The CORBA Activity Service Framework described in this paper is a way out of this situation. The design of the service is based on the insight that the various extended transaction models can be supported by providing a general purpose event signalling mechanism that can be programmed to enable activities - application specific units of computations – to coordinate each other in a manner prescribed by the model under consideration. The different extended transaction models can be mapped onto specific implementations of this framework permitting such transactions to span a network of systems con...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: MIDDLEWARE
• Authors: Iain Houston, Mark C. Little, Ian Robinson, Santosh K. Shrivastava, Stuart M. Wheater
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Extended Transaction Models, Extended Transactions, MIDDLEWARE 2001, Specific Extended Transaction