A Transaction Processing Toolkit for ACTS

Project Information

ACTRANS

Grant agreement ID: AC081

Project closed

Start date 1 September 1995

End date 31 August 1998

Funded under

• Specific programme of research, technological development and demonstration in the area of advanced communications technologies and services, 1994-1998

Total cost € 9 340 000,00

EU contribution € 4 336 000,00

Coordinated by

Doxa Informatique
France

Exploitable results

MaaoOTS: An OMG Object transaction Service software enhanced with the OMG nested transaction option and with support to the new Open Nested Transaction model

Summary :INRIA has developed an OMGOTS compliant transaction system named MAAO OTS whose transaction kernel is based on a light ISO OSI TP transaction protocol machine. The MAAO Transaction Kernel provides transaction management services and a transaction propagation protocol which are independent of the external execution environment (operating system, transport, physical distribution, etc.). The OTS Interface provides the set of OTS defined interfaces such as TransactionFactory, Control, Co-ordinator, Terminator and Recovery Co-ordinator. The ORB Access provides the access to ORB.

A transactional bridge between Microsoft's MTS transactional platform and OMG's OTS

Summary : MTS-OTS Bridge is a set of software components providing the integration of OTS conformant Transaction Monitors (TM) to MTS the Microsoft Transaction Server.