[gnome-love] Re: Transaction Services

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2001-08-24 at 05:58, Ryan Marsh wrote:
> Gnome has a great CORBA and activation framework I was wondering if
> anyone had given any thought to starting a Online Transaction Processing
> Server project? I don't know if Mono would conflict with this in scope
> (does .NET offer any transaction container?). I just though it would be
> great if Linux (et.al.) had a great open-source transaction server like
> Weblogic, TUXEDO, MTS, or IBM TXSeries (now part of websphere).
> Companies spend large amounts of money on these and right now there is
> only one succesful open-source middleware server JBoss. I feel that we
> could build a better one.
>
> I think it would be awsome to be able to build business objets in the
> language of my choice (Python, C, C++, Perl, etc..) and have them run in
> a robust open-source transaction environment. All the building blocks
> are there. What do you guys think? 
>
> I was tossing a few names around in my head, my favorite:
> G-SPOT (Gnome Server for Portable Object Transactions)
that's something that's been in my mind (doing some open-source
Tuxedo-like project) for a long time. In fact, it's something I'd been
thinking to build on top of gnome-db (http://www.gnome-db.org), for the
database access.

I think it would be a great project to have, so please start working on
it :-)

cheers

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