Transactions
Over the last several years, transactional programming has regained momentum because developers have recognized its importance in Internet computing. You can see this re-emergence in the products that you use. Microsoft released MTS and eventually COM+, both providing a robust environment for transactional computing. Even Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) supports transactions through mechanisms such as entity beans. Transactions simply make systems more dependable, and that's certainly a goal that we all try to achieve.
So how do transactions fit into the Web Service paradigm? This section takes a look at two opposing approaches to distributing transactions over the Web.
Transaction Authority Markup Language (XAML)
Traditional transactions ...
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