RE: verbatim notes from London bt models meeting

[Sazi Temel <sazi.temel@bea.com>]

At 05:44 PM 4/6/01 +0100, Peter Furniss wrote:
>>
>> > Does the service (lets assume a remote one) site maps the BTP
>> words to XA
>> > words? or the initiator site (cohesion)?  I have no objection if the
>> > service sites maps the BTP words to XA words, in fact this may
>> be the case
>> > in many critical services. But if the initiator site maps the BTP to XA
>> > words then this looks like the cohesion is taking a XA
>> transaction manager
>> > role for this particular service... which requires that there is an
>> > discovery (or by other means) of the type of the services offered (how
>> > would initiator know that a particular service implements 2PC/ACID
>> > transaction?)
>
>I definitely expected any XA-ness to be inside the service site - the
>initiator/coordinator will not send or receive any different messages or
>parameters.
>

Agreed!

>> I would prefer to see the BTP message (say "complete work OK") to
>> be mapped
>> by the subordinate/servant/... in an implementation specific
>> manner,

Agreed.

>> so for
>> example it could do an xa_commit or an OTS::Current.commit(), or whatever.
>
>Or indeed to  ordering.cancel(ordernumber) in the other case, where it uses
>compensation.
>
>Peter
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