[business-transaction] FW: Transactions

[Stephen White <swhite@SeeBeyond.com>]

This was just posted.  Is BTP inconsistent with Web architecture?


-----Original Message-----
From: 	Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org] 
Sent:	Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:41 AM
To:	ksankar@cisco.com
Cc:	www-ws-arch@w3.org
Subject:	Re: Transactions

> Folks,
> 
> 	Here is the link to OASIS BTP initiative.
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/business-transactions/. I am sure
> most of us are familiar with this initiative.
> 
> 	The specification is at Version 0.9x and would be voted in by
> May 13. It is safe to say that we should be able to refer to this
> specification for some or all part of transaction related architectural
> components. 

It's still early, but as that specification stands, it would be difficult
for us to refer to it because it is inconsistent with Web architecture in
important ways.
Not that I want to get into BTP in detail at this point, but I would like to
see us implement some sort of "architectural consistency" process that
ensures that any pre-existing technology that we identify be validated to be
"Web architecture friendly".
MB
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