Standards body Oasis, the Organisation for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards, has announced an
initiative to define a set of protocols that will standardise the
integration of applications in service oriented
architectures.
Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Tibco, IBM, Hitachi and others will work
as part of the new WS-TX (Web Services Transaction) technical
committee, to define specifications that will help software
customers to better use web services to create composite
applications.
The WS-TX committee will focus initially on three specifications
that have been contributed to the project: WS-Coordination (Web
Services Coordination), WS-AtomicTransaction and
WS-BusinessActivity (Business Activity Framework).
