Re: Marketing and publicity

[Mark Little <mcl@arjuna.com>]

> Mark Little chairs that JSR's expert group, if I understand correctly. And
he is
> involved in the proposal for a new JSR, so I believe that potential
intersection
> has been considered.

Ian Robinson from IBM chairs JSR 95. There is no intersection between a Java
XML proposal for transactions and the activity service JSR as far as I can
see.

>
> I think the OMG extensions for OTS (Activity Service) spec has a certain
overlap
> with BTP in one potential use, but is at a lower level (no assumed
transaction
> model or coordination protocol), and could be used perhaps more profitably
for
> application-level protocols for specific trading interactions (in my
personal
> view), rather than for general purpose commitment a la BTP.

Agreed.

Mark.

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