Friday, October 29, 2010

Editorial: Growing Support for Asynchronous Transactions

It's always exciting to see a prediction come true. . .especially when its one of your own.  For a number of years now it has been obvious that the simple synchronous web services taught in books and college courses were never going to be sufficient enough to support the highly complex transactions required in the real world.  In particular, transactions which require two-phase validation, such as those that leverage Schematron in addition to simple XML Schema validation.

It appears that others are leaning towards agreeing with this same premise.  Microsoft is now publishing its Visual Studio Async in order to better handle these sorts of highly complex transactions which require higher network latency than your traditional synchronous request/response web service.  Infoworld has a good article here that describes Microsoft's adoption of this new trend.

While not endorsing any specific platform, Microsoft's development tools have historically been a great indicator of market trends.  This latest addition proves to be a good sign that the industry is headed towards better support of this highly complex transaction processing world in which we live.

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