Re: [service-orientated-architecture] Warren on applying SOA to mobiles with Java

[Keith Harrison-Broninski]

Eric Newcomer wrote: Unless there's a transaction manager on the mobile device (which I haven't heard there is), mobile devices can't participate in a coordinated transaction. Also clients don't typically participate in a coordinated transaction unless there are operations on local data (i.e. data managed on the device). Indeed.  But we need such clients.  The general trend of IT is towards lightweight, client-side, P2P applications with no barrier to entry and low TCO - though the only such application proposed for process management (without which you cannot do enterprise transaction management) is my own work with humanedj.  Does anyone know of other such efforts?  If so, I would be very interested to hear of them. In general, to me it seems that the distributed approach of ESBs towards SOA is typical of this trend.  Servers have become smaller and smaller (and people have more of them), to the point where most server machinery is not that different from client machinery, and the same will happen in due course with the software they run. -- All the best Keith http://keith.harrison-broninski.info SPONSORED LINKS Computer software Computer aided design software Computer job Soa Service-oriented architecture YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "service-orientated-architecture" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.