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

["Dale Moberg" <dmoberg@cyclonecommerce.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Monica J. Martin [mailto:Monica.Martin@Sun.COM] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 3:42 PM
To: Yunker, John
Cc: Dale Moberg; David RR Webber; BPSS ebXML
Subject: Re: [ebxml-bp] Clarification - FORK and BusinessTransaction


Yunker, John wrote:

>I will be on the call for the first 1/2 hour.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>Talk to you on Monday.
>  
>
+1 unless there is further indications that the business aspects of
business transaction should be changed (likely not by this team).

+1 also to this group not getting involved in changing "business aspects
of
business transaction"!!!