>> I also thought that the reference to WSTL (Web Services Transaction
Language) in the Guardian example was interesting - I found only a few
obscure references to this specification through Google[1].
My guess is the speaker might have been referring to a different spec.
It was WS-Transaction (published by IBM, BEA and Microsoft) but it's been
superceded.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-transaction.asp
That original spec fed into specs for atomic transactions, coordination and
business activities:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/wsatspecindex.asp
