An Open, industry-neutral schema for transaction processing

[Bill la Forge]

Looks like there is an IETF internet draft that relates:
    http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-trade-xmlmsg-requirements-00.txt

(Thanks to Ron Kleinman for pointing this out.)

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Assaf Arkin <arkin at exoffice.com>
To: Bill la Forge <b.laforge at jxml.com>
Cc: <xml-dev-digest at ic.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: An Open, industry-neutral schema for transaction processing


> Bill la Forge wrote:
> > 
> > I am interested in developing an XML schema for transaction processing that
> > could form part of the basis for an open platform for document-based processing.
> > 
> > Has this already been done? Does anyone else have a similar interest?
> > 
> > Bill
> 
> 
> I was thinking along the same lines, a DTD that will specify a sequence
> of operations occuring inside a transaction.
> 
> If the DTD is generic enough it could be useful in various environments.
> You know the common cases, but it could also be used to reconfigure an
> application's transaction through XML, to schedule transactional
> operations (cron style), or even to negotiate the contents of a
> transaction.
> 
> The DTD will involve a specification of the transaction and it's
> resources, and a set of operations to carry, plus operations to carry in
> the event of the transaction committing or aborting.
> 
> Each operation would be a lookup for an object, parameters and possibly
> an expected return value.
> 
> arkin
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Assaf Arkin                                           www.exoffice.com
> CTO, Exoffice Technologies, Inc.                        www.exolab.org
> 


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