Java Web Services Architecture

Chapter {14}

Transaction Management

The notion of a transaction is fundamental to business systems architectures. A transaction, simply put, ensures that only agreed-upon, consistent, and acceptable state changes are made to a system–regardless of system failure or concurrent access to the system’s resources.

With the advent of Web service architectures, distributed applications (macroservices) are being built by assembling existing, smaller services (microservices). The microservices are usually built with no a priori knowledge of how they may be combined. The resulting complex architectures introduce new challenges to existing transaction models. Several new standards are being proposed that specify how application servers and transaction ...