The Java Transaction Service (JTS) is a specification for building a

transaction manager Transaction processing is information processing in computer science that is divided into individual, indivisible operations called ''transactions''. Each transaction must succeed or fail as a complete unit; it can never be only partially comple ...

that maps onto the

Object Management Group The Object Management Group (OMG) is a computer industry standardization, standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a range of technologies. Business activities The goal of the OMG was a common portabl ...

(OMG) Object Transaction Service (OTS) used in the

Common Object Request Broker Architecture The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) designed to facilitate the communication of systems that are deployed on diverse platforms. CORBA enables collaboration between sys ...

(CORBA) architecture. It uses

General Inter-ORB Protocol In distributed computing, General Inter-ORB Protocol (GIOP) is the message communications protocol, protocol by which object request brokers (ORBs) communicate in CORBA. Standards associated with the protocol are maintained by the Object Managemen ...

(IIOP) to propagate the transactions between multiple JTS transaction managers. {{See also, Java (programming language)

Additional resources

Sun's JTS description
Transaction service