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Peter Benson, Justice in Transactions: A Theory of Contract Law, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019, 610 + xiv pp, hb £68.95

The paper focuses on transaction context propagation in component-based software architectures, where every component is deployed into a container and client requests may be performed in the scope of a container-interposed transaction. In the existing commercial architectures such as EJB and COM+, the “single attribute approach” is used to specify the transaction context propagation. Being diff...

In order to support both traditional short transaction and long cooperative transactions, we propose a novel timestamp ordering approach. With this timestamp ordering method, short transactions can be processed in the traditional way, as if there are no cooperative transactions, therefore not be blocked by long transactions; cooperative transactions will not be aborted when there is a conflict ...