Re: Web services and CORBA

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:22:12AM -0400, Eric Newcomer wrote:
> >What would be wrong with building reliability, transactions,
> >conversations, etc.. in the context of hypertext?
> 
> Mark can we have some more specific examples here?  I can't answer this on a
> theoretical basis.  I can see how you can include in XML sufficient
> information to map a transaction context, for example, onto an underlying
> transaction manager.  I do not know of a comparable precedent in hypertext.

On the RESTwiki, we've got the start of some hypertext purchasing
examples;

http://conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/RestifiedPurchasing

I hope it's clear in there where the notion of a "transaction" would
fit, or where "reliability" would be required, etc..  But it's a bit
rough - Bob Haugen just put it together yesterday.

MB
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Received on Tuesday, 28 May 2002 10:58:57 UTC