Re: [wsbpel] Issue - 53 - Should include Business Transaction Management (BTM) programming constructs compatible with WS-T, BTP and WS-TXM

["Mark Little" <mark.little@arjuna.com>]

> Alastair / Mark,
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> The OASIS BCM team has already made a big start in this area,
> and created a sub-team to focus on the business needs and
> define the technology approach to this.
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> The latest PPT giving an overview is now available here:
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http://dfas.info/navigation/content.asp?document=%2FCMS%2Fdocuments%2FBCM%2E
ChoicePoint%2EIntroduction%2E2003%2D08%2D19a%2Eppt
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> And we are looking to work on the technical implementation
> details next and invite folks in this vendor space to
> participate.  There's already a raft of vendors with
> products out there - and not necessarily OASIS participants
> yet - that it would be excellent to have work on this.
>
> No sense on us completely re-inventing the wheel here.

Yes, I agree. I definitely need to look at the BCM stuff, but I'd suggest
you look at WS-Context too, since that effort was based on user requirements
and implementations too. Hopefully there's some commonality in both
approaches that would allow some merging of work at a later stage.

Thanks,

Mark.

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> Thanks, DW.
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> >>
> > There is a lurking background issue, obviously, of how the WS-C, WS-T,
> > BTP and WS-CAF initiatives all come to some table to do with
> > standardizing BTM for web services -- myself, I would like to see OASIS
> > create a "WS-BT" technical committee and get on with it. I know that the
> > end-users we work with have a very low appetite for standards
> > smorgasbord in this area.
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> Agreed.
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