OASIS BTP

As mentioned earlier, a typical business activity spans several independent organizations. Implementing a transaction that requires ACID properties to be satisfied may not be possible in such cases, as a single transaction could last for hours or even days together. It may not be possible to hold locks on the participants’ resources for such a long duration. OASIS has defined a protocol called BTP (Business Transaction Protocol) that allows the coordination of business transactions spanning multiple participants. The transaction ensures consistency irrespective of the disparate applications running on different technologies deployed at different organizations. As it is not possible for a single controller to hold the resources belonging ...

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