Chapter 24. Transactions

In this chapter

Transactions Defined

Transaction Management

The COM+ Transaction Programming Model

Monitoring Transactions

Design Considerations

Performing transactions is one of the oldest challenges facing the computer industry. A tremendous percentage of the actual server-centric operations taking place in enterprise applications require the protection of transactions. At the onset, transaction technology was the domain of mainframes alone, but as critical applications have migrated to workstations and finally the PC platform, transactional technology has paved the way. In fact, transactions are the enabler for many of the most critical applications, making a platform with no transaction support a horror to such applications. ...

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