Transaction Management: Managing Complex Transactions and Sharing Distributed Databases

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This work provides an update for those seeking system solutions beyond the confines of traditional approaches. It offers advice on how to manage complex transactions and share distributed databases on client servers and the Internet. Topics covered include: the challenge of global transaction requirements within an expanding business perspective; how to handle long transactions and their constituent elements; possible benefits from object-oriented solutions; the contribution of knowledge engineering in transaction management; the Internet, the World Wide Web and transaction handling; systems software and transaction-processing monitors; OSF/1 and the Encina transaction monitor; active, data transfers and remote procedure calls; serialization in a transaction environment; transaction locks, two-phase commit and deadlocks; improving transaction-oriented database management; the successful development of an increasingly complex transaction environment.