The Object Management Group has now announced its object-based transaction processing specification voted on by its Object Services Task Force in Dublin earlier in the month. The specification for the was pulled together by Groupe Bull, IBM Corp, ICL Plc, Iona Technologies Ltd, Novell Inc, SunSoft Inc, Tandem Computers Inc, Tivoli Systems Inc and Transarc Corp. The Object Group’s technical committee and board will approve the Object Transaction Service by end of the year. We understand that most of the core specification was written by SunSoft’s Alan Snyder. IBM did a lot of the editing work, even if, as we are told, it did not contribute much new material. Tandem added the User’s View chapter to the specification. ICL did the convertability and interoperability specifications, fixed the recovery and nested transaction material. Observers say the offering ended up looking more like the original Sun and ICL submissions than any of the other submissions. Other Common Object Services Specification 2 services recommended by the task force were concurrency, relationships and externalisation. The concurrency specification was provided by Transarc. The relationship submission came from Bull, Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM, Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA, Siemens Nixdorf Informationssyteme AG and SunSoft, and the externalisation proposal was developed by IBM and SunSoft.
