
4 End-to-End e-business Transaction Management Made Easy
1.1 e-business transactions
In the Web world, users perceive interacting with an organization or a business
through a Web-based interface as a single, continuous interaction or session
between the user’s machine and the systems of the other party, and that is how it
should be. However, the interaction is most likely made up of a large number of
individual, interrelated transactions, each one providing its own specific part of
the complex set of functions that implement an e-business transaction, perhaps
running on systems owned by other organizations or legal entities.
Figure 1-1 shows ...