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MIB has stated their intent to contribute these specifications to an open standards organization in the near future.  We expect them to follow through.

WS-AT is a respray of older technology, allowing existing transaction monitors to play in the WS world. We’re much more interested in WS-BA.

Choreology attended the WS-Transaction feedback conference in March 2004 and submitted a set of proposals to make WS-BA more capable of becoming the vanguard business transaction standard. We would like to see that happen, because it would save everybody a lot of trouble and grow the business transaction market.

What we like about WS-BA:

• It’s IBM and Microsoft
• It’s a good platform
• It can be gotten to where it needs to be

• Unless it is changed it is critically deficient in its exclusive emphasis on the Do-Compensate model
• The feedback group’s wheels seem to grind exceedingly slowly
• It hasn’t been submitted to a standards body (yet).

Notwithstanding their continuing deficiencies, Choreology intends to implement the latest versions of these specifications in a forthcoming release of the Cohesions product.

Read our announcement following participation in the first Interoperation Workshop for Web Service Transaction Specifications held on the 18th and 19th January 2005.