There are tools that help with this. For example one of our partners, Verve http://www.verveinc.com/, provides a "workflow" engine for sequencing multi-step business transactions. I believe it supports various application servers as well. This corresponds to the Command pattern suggested by Mr. Frentess. If the work flows are complex and varied, having a tools that does the state machine aspects for you can be a huge win. -Chris. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Valesky [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 8:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: long transactions > > What are folks using for long transactions out there? Most of the folks > I've > talked to end up using some sort of home-rolled state machine and using > short transactions to implement the state transitions. There's gotta be a > better way. > > ========================================================================== > = > Tom Valesky -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.patriot.net/users/tvalesky > > ========================================================================== > = > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the > body > of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
