Object Transaction Service: experiences and open issues

Author

Ram, Prabhu ; Do, Lyman ; Drew, Pamela ; Zhou, Tong

Author_Institution

Math. & Comput. Technol., Boeing Co., Seattle, WA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

296

Lastpage

304

Abstract

Transaction management is required to maintain data consistency in any system with concurrent access to its information. The Object Transaction Service (OTS) is a CORBA service that brings transactional semantics to distributed object oriented applications. We report our experience of developing a prototype using OTS. We present results from our scaling experiments and analyze the overheads incurred by the components of an OTS based distributed transaction. We also highlight issues that need to be addressed if OTS is to be used in large distributed systems such as those in Boeing

Keywords

data integrity; distributed databases; distributed object management; transaction processing; Boeing; CORBA service; OTS based distributed transaction; Object Transaction Service; concurrent access; data consistency; distributed object oriented applications; large distributed systems; open issues; overheads; transaction management; transactional semantics; Airplanes; Computer networks; Computer science; Costs; Electrical capacitance tomography; Imaging phantoms; Mathematics; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering computing; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Objects and Applications, 1999. Proceedings of the International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0182-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DOA.1999.794049

Filename

794049