US 5,706,500 A · Selective transaction oriented recovery and restart for message-driven business applications

Abstract

A method for processing a business request in a transaction system is disclosed. A state indication indicates the current processing state of the business request within a service processing means for processing the business request. A unit of work is selected from a plurality of units of work for processing sub-requests of the business request dependent on the state indication. The selected unit of work is processed. The current processing state of the business request is stored within the service processing means and then all modifications prepared by the processing is committed.

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Dependent claims

A transaction system comprising:

at least one service processing means for processing a definable business request, said at least one service processing means including:
a plurality of units of work for processing sub-requests of said business request, wherein said processing provided by each respective unit of work is subject to a partial completion condition;
a state indication means providing current processing status for said business request within said service processing means;
a processing control means for controlling the processing of the service processing means by selection of one of said plurality of units of work;
and
a context means which provides context information required for processing said business request upon said partial completion condition.

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Selective transaction oriented recovery and restart for message-driven business applications

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Selective transaction oriented recovery and restart for message-driven business applications

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Abstract

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