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This paper investigates a new paradigm in transactional services, specially tailored for Internet purposes. This new paradigm considers transactions (called I-Transactions) as user’s atomic actions spanned upon multiple databases present in the Internet. Whereas classical transactions are designed to cope with multiple users accessing a particular DBMS, or a federation of well-known DBMS, inversely, I-Transactions are related to a single user, i.e. they are not bounded to a particular DBMS, or a federation of DBMS. Therefore, I-Transactions are self-managed since they cannot be ruled by a common global transaction manager. They provide an atomic action upon a set of DBMS that possibly do not know each other (they are determined when a transaction is initiated) and which may not be simultaneously accessed again by another I-Transaction. They are tailored to be used in the Internet environment, which now does not support many kind of transactional facility, and are designed to be easily integrated in exis ting Internet applications. This paper proposes a description of the I-Transactions and the constraints related to their utilization, in particular from the security point of view. It also outlines the major differences among I-Transactions and the CORBA Transaction Service, TIP or the X/OPEN DTP. This paper considers two architectures for supporting I-Transactions: direct interactions among the participants or brokered interactions with the introduction of transaction brokers (agencies).
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Billard, D. (1999). Transactional Services for the Internet. In: Atzeni, P., Mendelzon, A., Mecca, G. (eds) The World Wide Web and Databases. WebDB 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1590. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10704656_2
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