Automatic transaction processing of component-based server applications

US5890161A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Patrick James Helland · Bellevue, US
• Rodney Limprecht · Woodinville, US
• Mohsen Al-Ghosein · Redmond, US
• Wilfred Russell · Bellevue, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 28, 1997
• Grant date: Mar 30, 1999
• Expiry date: Oct 28, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99952
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A component-based framework includes system services and component integration interfaces that provide a run-time environment which automatically provides transactions to encompass work of component-based server applications according to the transactional expectations of individual server application components. A transaction attribute is associated with each server application component that represents whether the component requires execution in a transaction. When a client requests creation of a server application component without having first initiated a transaction and the component's transaction attribute indicates a transaction is required, the framework automatically initiates a transaction in which to run the server application component. The framework also completes the automatically initiated transaction upon receiving an indication from the server application component that its transactional work is complete.