- From: Mark Little <mark_little@hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:15:03 +0100
- To: "Anne Thomas Manes" <anne@manes.net>, "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
> For the most part I agree that ACID isn't suitable for the Internet, but > there are times when acidity is required, which is one reason why SOAP > supports other protocols (e.g., JMS)that might be more suitable for ACID > behavior. Agreed. It's incorrect to say that ACID isn't good for the Web: it's more accurate to say that ACID isn't good for everything and the Web probably shows this better than any other environment has up to now. There are businesses that will require ACID semantics for their Web applications for very good business-level reasons, but these will probably be the niche case. (Saying that, though, this niche case may well be the biggest revenue generator in the short-term.) It is also incorrect to imply that if you want ACID you need a suitable delivery protocol (you may not have meant that and in which case I apologies in advance). You can implement ACID transactions just as easily over HTTP as you can over JMS. The failure characteristics may be different but at the user-level I can even be isolated from that. Mark. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SENDER : Dr. Mark Little, Architect (Transactions), HP Arjuna Labs PHONE : +44 191 2606216, FAX : +44 191 2606250 EMAIL : mark_little@hp.com
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