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Web Transactions

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Internet transactions

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A Web Transaction is a transactional interaction between a client, usually a web browser, and one or several databases as backend of a multi-tier architecture. The middle tier of the architecture includes a web server which accepts client requests via HTTP. It forwards these requests either directly to the underlying database or to an application server which, in turn, interacts with the database.

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The main application of Web transactions is in eCommerce applications. In a minimal configuration, the architecture for Web transactions consists of a client, a web server and a database server. Database access is provided at the web server level, i.e., by embedding database access into Java servlets or JavaServer Pages (JSP). More sophisticated architectures consider a dedicated application server layer (i.e., an implementation of the Java Enterprise Edition specification Java EE) and support distributed databases. Communication between...

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  1. University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Heiko Schuldt

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Schuldt, H. (2009). Web Transactions. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_731

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