OASIS, the international standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved Web Services Transaction (WS-Transaction) version 1.1 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. WS-Transaction describes an extensible framework for providing protocols that coordinate the actions of distributed applications. Such coordination protocols can be used to support a wide variety of applications that require consistent agreement on the outcome of distributed transactions. WS-Transaction is offered on a Royalty-Free basis, as provided under OASIS policies.
“Web services increasingly tie together large numbers of participants to form distributed applications. The result can be extremely complex,” said Eric Newcomer of IONA, co-chair of the OASIS Web Services Transaction (WS-TX) Technical Committee. “WS-Transaction gives developers the framework they need to build reliable, distributed applications.”
