Alastair Green is CEO/CTO and co-founder of Choreology Ltd, the business transaction management (BTM) company. A co-author of the OASIS Business Transaction Protocol standard and an active member of the OASIS WSBPEL committee, he has spent over twenty years helping produce distributed transaction products for software vendors, and deploying them in end-user business processes, particularly in banks. He has been invited to overview web service transaction standards for the biennial High Performance Transactions Systems workshop this fall.
In the first part of this article (WSJ, Vol. 3, issue 9), we examined the
need to integrate business transaction management (BTM) software into
business process management standards and products. We believe that BTM
offers previously inaccessible levels of application coordination and process
synchronization, radically simplifying the design and implementation of
transactional business processes.
The most promising Web service/XML BPM standardization work is taking place
in the OASIS WS BPEL Technical Committee. Members of the committee have been
working on proposals to increase and modify the available syntax of the BPEL
language to support the use of BTM. A late August submission to the committee
( www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/3263/
BPEL.and.Business.Transaction.Management.Choreology.Submission.html) raised
issues #53 to #59, which were discussed in... (more)
Business transaction management (BTM) is a promising new development in
general-purpose enterprise software. Most large companies are devoting
significant resources to the problem of reliable, consistent integration of
application services.
BTM offers previously inaccessible levels of application coordination and
process synchronization, radically simplifying the design and implementation
of transactional business processes. Business process management (BPM) needs
to be enriched by BTM for users to see the potential value of BPM realized in
practice.
XML is already widely deplo... (more)
Alastair Green is CEO/CTO and co-founder of Choreology Ltd, the business transaction management (BTM) company. A co-author of the OASIS Business Transaction Protocol standard and an active member of the OASIS WSBPEL committee, he has spent over twenty years helping produce distributed transaction products for software vendors, and deploying them in end-user business processes, particularly in banks. He has been invited to overview web service transaction standards for the biennial High Performance Transactions Systems workshop this fall.
David Lucas
Shaul Efraim
Terence Martin Breslin
Cory Marchand
David Hughes
James Carlini
John Iffert
Dan Stolts
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