Re: [ebxml-bp] Clarification - FORK and BusinessTransaction

["Monica J. Martin" <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

Yunker, John wrote:

>I will be on the call for the first 1/2 hour.
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>Re: "is all complete or just fails" --> complete may either be "business success" or "business failure" and still have "technical success".  Transaction business success / failure may be (are usually) guards on the transitions within the business process.  Technical failure usually requires some sort of technical intervention.
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>My concern is that transactions are the building blocks for process, and as such once we allow elements of transactions to be the building blocks we destroy the integrity of the transaction.  A transaction should be very well defined in pre-conditions and post-conditions, allowing binding to policy etc, in essence being atomic with respect to the process model.
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>Talk to you on Monday.
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+1 unless there is further indications that the business aspects of 
business transaction should be changed (likely not by this team).