Programming heterogeneous transactions for software development environments

Describes an approach to supporting transaction model interoperability for software development environments. In attempting to integrate tools written in two languages with different transaction models, it was found that existing technology was insufficient to facilitate a centralized mechanism that is poorly integrated with features in most languages. The authors propose instead a decentralized approach to interoperability that gives programmers extended control over transactions to accommodate a variety of transaction models and to permit the programming of alternative forms of heterogeneous transactions. This approach is especially appropriate for supporting transaction model interoperability in software development environments.<>