PDC05 The other day I mentioned some of the issues surrounding the appropriate scenarios for atomic transactions deployment. I also mentioned the compensating model for long-running activities. Choosing between these models inside distributed applications...

PDC05 I should point out that I enjoyed last night’s Birds of a Feather session . It was a lively and spirited discussion. I appreciated the opportunity both to correct some misconceptions and to hear some good feedback. Thank you for that, William...

PDC05 A common theme that has come up repeatedly here at the PDC: there is some confusion around for WS-AtomicTransactions (WS-AT) and how it composes with the general web services architecture. The strawman syllogism goes something like this: ...

Those of you who pay attention to these things might have noticed that we recently published new versions of the WS-Transaction family of specifications. These versions are dated August 2005 and supersede the previous versions from October 2004. You...

I suspect that I have managed to set a record for the longest silence after an initial blog post. Except, that is, for all the people posted once and never came back . Like all poor students, I do have some excuses. I was on vacation in Alaska, an...

Hello, world. Be kind. Be fair. I should introduce myself, just to get that part out of the way. My name is Max Feingold I am a development lead on Microsoft’s Transactions team, which is a core component of the Indigo team. I work mostly on transaction...