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> Word on the street is that the world is giving up on two phase commit.
> Although I'm not sure I agree, I can see some of the motivations.
> The thing that bothers me, though, is that any potential replacements
> are necessarily application-specific, and can't be handled in a
> fully automatic way.

Do you mean undo via compensating actions? (which I think is the
WS-Transaction/BPEL4WS approach)

Or are you referring to something else?

Misha