Re: distributed transactions with more than one application

From: Cornelius Kuppler <kuppler_at_ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:08:57 +0100
Message-ID: <c3ce2a$ldd$1@news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Chuck wrote:

>>(How) can I let _two_ applications work on _one_ distributed
>>transaction? Is there any support from Oracle for this purpose?
>>Something like passing over the transaction context?
>>
>>It's obvious that it is possible with an external middleware (like
>>CORBA OTS), but it would be more appropriate for us to do it without.
>>

> 
> Why would you want 2 applications working on the same distributed
> transaction? You'd need to duplicate all the two phase commit logic
> that's already built in to the RDBMS. Why reinvent the wheel?

In the end we want two software agents to work on this transaction. And it is urgent that they work in the same context, so that only if both agents succeed the whole transaction is commited. Received on Thu Mar 18 2004 - 09:08:57 CST