Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070198518
Filing Date: February 14, 2006
Inventors: Victor Luchangco, Virendra Marathe
Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Current U.S. Classification: 707, 707/008000
View Prior Art for Claim 00019
The computer readable medium as recited in Claim 16, wherein said determining whether to commit or abort the given transaction comprises:
determining to commit the given transaction if (a) any one of the other transactions in the set is in a committed state, or (b) each of the other transactions in the set is in a committing state indicating that the other transaction has issued a commit request and has not yet been committed, and if none of the other transactions in the set is in an aborted state; and
determining to abort the given transaction if any one of the other transactions in the set is in an aborted state.
Title SAGAS
ISBN ISSN:0163-5808
Description
Sagas are groups of transactions such that if any one of them fails, the entire group fails. Kudos to Jon Walpole for bringing this to my attention!
