Third generation TP monitors: a database challenge

Abstract

In summary, the goal of third generation TP monitors is to allow significantly improved specification and management of complex processes and their interactions. This will require that current database and TP monitor abstractions, architectures, and technologies be expanded. These technologies will need to scale to huge numbers of processes and application programs that span many organizations and involve many non-database resources such as humans, processors, and services. There is already some work addressing the open issues we have outlined above, including new transaction and workflow models (e.g. [5, 8, 7, 3, 1, 11, 2, 6, 14, 10]). What is lacking is the integration of these ideas into a coherent transaction processing monitor, and the demonstration of these novel ideas on real applications. Herein lies the challenge!