Thanks for your insights on this. WSTL is actually not the same as
WS-Transaction (completely different specifications) - see [1] for an
example of WSTL. WSTL seems never to never have made it out to a broad
audience, and apparently has faded away.
[1] http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~hf1/phd/papers/toread/pires02building.pdf
Joe
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken North [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:51 PM
> To: XML Developers List
> Cc: Chiusano Joseph; Jonathan Robie
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] InfoWorld Article: SOA meets the real world
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> >> I also thought that the reference to WSTL (Web Services Transaction
> Language) in the Guardian example was interesting - I found
> only a few obscure references to this specification through Google[1].
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> My guess is the speaker might have been referring to a different spec.
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> It was WS-Transaction (published by IBM, BEA and Microsoft)
> but it's been superceded.
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
> us/dnglobspec/html/ws-transaction.asp
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> That original spec fed into specs for atomic transactions,
> coordination and business activities:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
> us/dnglobspec/html/wsatspecindex.asp
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