Message Queuing Patterns for Middleware-Mediated Transactions

Many enterprise applications require the use of object-oriented middleware and message-oriented middleware in combination. Middleware-mediated transacdons have been proposed as a transaction model to address reliability of such applications; they extend distributed object transactions to include message-oriented transactions. In this paper, we present three message queuing patterns that we have found useful for implementing middleware-mediated transactions. We discuss and show how the patterns can be applied to support guaranteed compensation in the engineering of transactional enterprise applications.

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