STDL as a High-Level Interoperability Concept for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems

The Structured Transaction Definition Language (STDL) is a language-based programming interface to transactional protocols and runtime systems. STDL isolates within the language transaction processing features, allowing an implementation to hide underlying communications mechanisms, like TxRPC and CORBA/OTS, from the programmer. Because of its design centre in distributed processing, STDL already includes many features of object-oriented systems. Completing the transformation to an object-oriented language provides a migration path from procedure-oriented TP to object-oriented TP and simplifies the substitution of object-oriented communication managers.