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Application A transaction management system is made part of the inventory architecture and then used by those service compositions that require rollback features. Impacts Transacted service activities can consume more memory because of the requirement for each service to preserve its original state until it is notified to rollback or commit its changes. Principles Service Statelessnes Architecture Inventory, Composition As per the previous figure, Services A and B complete their respective tasks successfully. However each time they do, they initiate a local transaction, temporarily saving the current state of the database prior to making their changes (1, 2). After Service C fails its database update attempt (3), Services A and B restore their databases back to their original states (4, 5). The business task is effectively reset or rolled back across services within the pre-defined transaction boundary. Related Patterns in This Catalog Asynchronous Queuing (Little, Rischbeck, Simon), Canonical Resources (Erl), Capability Composition (Erl), Compensating Transaction (Utschig, Maier, Trops, Normann, Winterberg, Loesgen, Little), Composition Autonomy (Erl), Event-Driven Messaging (Little, Rischbeck, Simon), Inventory Endpoint (Erl), Message Metadata (Erl), Service Agent (Erl), Service Callback (Karmarkar), Service Messaging (Erl) Related Patterns in Other Catalogs Coordinator (Jain), Task Coordinator (Schmidt, Buschmann, Henney) Related Service-Oriented Computing Goals Increased Vendor Diversification Options, Reduced IT Burden This page contains excerpts from: SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl Foreword by Grady Booch With contributions from David Chappell, Jason Hogg, Anish Karmarkar, Mark Little, David Orchard, Satadru Roy, Thomas Rischbeck, Arnaud Simon, Clemens Utschig, Dennis Wisnosky, and others. (ISBN: 0136135161, Hardcover, Full-Color, 400+ Illustrations, 865 pages) For more information about this book, visit www.soabooks.com.

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