Interfacing Cooperative Transactions to Software Development Environments

Many cooperative transaction models are intended to support teams of programmers sharing a software development environment. However, papers on this topic often neglect to describe how the programmers might actually interact with the cooperative transactions in terms of user commands and corresponding responses from the environment. In this paper, we consider a particular cooperative transaction model, called participant transactions, and explain the user model that needs to be implemented by a software development environment. Copyright  1990 Gail E. Kaiser Kaiser is supported by National Science Foundation grants CCR-8858029 and CCR-8802741, by grants from AT&T, Citicorp, DEC, IBM, Siemens, Sun and Xerox, by the Center for Advanced Technology and by the Center for Telecommunications Research. keywords: Concurrency control, cooperative work, extended transaction model, large scale system, multi-user software development environment.