Scaling Transactions to Web Services
ACID transactions in their centralized or distributed variations are especially suited to the bank account credit-debit type of problem, and offer the kinds of guarantees on which truly dependable back-end computing systems can be built. There is, however, a practical limitation to how far ACID transactions can be applied to the Web services world, even with advanced mechanisms like nesting and interposition.
To preserve the ACID properties, locks must be maintained on data throughout the duration of a transaction. While maintaining locks for the duration of a transaction is a reasonable thing to do within your own organization, it becomes less so when third parties are given access to your systems through ...
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