WS-Transaction

WS-Transaction is an interoperability standard that includes the WS-AtomicTransaction, WS-BusinessActivity, and WS-Coordination specifications. Use these topics to learn more about WS-Transaction.

The Web Services Atomic Transaction (WS-AT) support in the application server provides transactional quality of service to the web services environment. Distributed web services applications, and the resources they use, can take part in distributed global transactions. With Web Services Business Activity (WS-BA) support in the application server, web services on different systems can coordinate activities that are more loosely coupled than atomic transactions. Such activities can be difficult or impossible to roll back atomically, and therefore require a compensation process if an error occurs. Web Services Coordination (WS-COOR) specifies a CoordinationContext and a Registration service with which participant web services can enlist to take part in the protocols that are offered by specific coordination types.

To learn about WS-Transaction in WebSphere Application Server, see the following topics:

• Web Services Atomic Transaction support in the application server
• Web Services Business Activity support in the application server
• Web services transactions, high availability, firewalls and intermediary nodes
• Transaction compensation and business activity support
• WS-Transaction and mixed-version cells

Subtopics

• Web Services Atomic Transaction support in the application server
  
• Web Services Business Activity support in the application server
  
• Web services transactions, high availability, firewalls and intermediary nodes
  
• Transaction compensation and business activity support
  
• WS-Transaction and mixed-version cells
  
• Business activity API
  

Use WS-Transaction policy to coordinate transactions or business activities for web services

WS-Transaction policy settings

Transaction service settings

Business activity API