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Hands-On Enterprise Java Microservices with Eclipse MicroProfile
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Hands-On Enterprise Java Microservices with Eclipse MicroProfile

by Cesar Saavedra, Heiko W. Rupp, Jeff Mesnil, Pavol Loffay, Antoine Sabot-Durand, Scott Stark
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Long Running Actions

In a loosely-coupled service environment, the motivation behind the Long Running Actions (LRA) specification is to provide consistent outcomes by business processes comprised of calls to many microservices without the need to lock data. One way to think about LRA is as transactions for microservices. Examples of situations when you need LRA include the following:

  • Ordering a book online will require the retirement of a book from the inventory, the processing of a payment, and finally shipping of the book. All these tasks need to happen atomically, in other words, they need to be processed all together, in that, if any of the tasks fail, then all tasks must be undone.
  • Making a flight reservation will require the removal ...
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ISBN: 9781838643102