RE: Definition of ' business transaction'

[Martin W Sachs <mwsachs@us.ibm.com>]

For practical purposes, we should assume the definition of Business
Transaction in the ebXML BPSS spec.  It is a single message exchange within
the larger collaboration definition. Of course, the meaning of the business
transaction is defined by the application.

Regards,
Marty

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Michael Kay <mhkay@iclway.co.uk> on 09/03/2001 05:38:24 AM

Please respond to mhkay@iclway.co.uk

To:   "'Richard Moon'" <richardjmoon@hotmail.com>,
      ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org
cc:
Subject:  RE: Definition of ' business transaction'



> The ebXML Glossary
> (http://www.ebxml.org/specs/ebGLOSS_print.pdf)includes
> the following definition:
> "A business transaction is a logical unit of business
> conducted by two or
> more parties that generates a computable success or failure state."

Which raises two questions in my mind:

(a) what is a logical unit of business? (not defined in the glossary)
(b) can anyone identify a logical unit of business which, as a consequence
of this definition, is not a business transaction?

Mike Kay


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