RE: BPML

When I forwarded Ismael's message, I did not mean
to imply that I necessarily agreed with all of it:
>how do we make B2B transactions reliable when the 2PC protocol is
>not available? The answer to this question naturally is: use compensating
>transactions.

I think there are other feasible mechanisms, such as the commercial
transaction patterns that will be published in the next revision
of the ebXML metamodel.  

Regards,
Bob Haugen