| List of Figures and Tables | ||
| Preface | ||
| Pt. I | The Transaction Environment at The End of the Twentieth Century | |
| 1 | Transaction Processing in the late 1990s and Beyond | 3 |
| 2 | Global Transaction Requirements and Business Perspectives | 24 |
| 3 | The Challenge Posed by Long Transactions | 45 |
| 4 | Long Transactions and Object-Oriented Solutions | 65 |
| 5 | Using Knowledge Engineering with Transaction Systems | 86 |
| Pt. II | Systems Software for Efficient Transaction Handling | |
| 6 | Functions of Transaction Processing Monitors | 111 |
| 7 | Using the Web to Process Transactions | 132 |
| 8 | OSF/1 and the ENCINA Transaction Monitor | 156 |
| 9 | Active Data Transfers and Remote Procedure Calls | 175 |
| 10 | Serialization in a Distributed Transaction Environment | 193 |
| Pt. III | Database Challenges in Transaction Environments | |
| 11 | Transaction Locks, Two-Phase Commit and Deadlocks | 215 |
| 12 | Transaction Management and Database Resources | 238 |
| 13 | Can We Improve Transaction-Oriented Database Management? | 255 |
| Acknowledgments | 275 | |
| References | 297 | |
| Index | 299 |
Overview