> Even with transactions, you are going to need to handle those 
transactions
> appropriately. In other words, what do you do on failure? You rollback, 
but
> then what?

Point taken, but I'd rather report a lame error to the client than mess 
up the integrity of the database. I'm thinking of those textbook examples 
where client B writes an improper balance back into the bank database 
because it hasn't seen client A's withdrawal yet.

> In Scarab's view, so far, we just do things on a first come first served
> basis. If two people are working on the same issue, right now, there is a
> chance that things could become out of sync ui wise. Eventually, we will
> build a system on top of that that will present a UI that allows people 
to
> handle that case more gracefully.

Whoa.  And I thought you were a java zen master...     ;-)

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