Adopting a transaction processing model for a global plant species information system

Abstract

Abstract Current transaction processing systems typically are large commercial or government applications, allowing multiple users, who may be geographically remote, to access data simultaneously. Such systems are found, for example, at the heart of large banking or telecommunications enterprises. Transaction processing interacts with the network, the database, and the physical machine on behalf of the application, but is technically within the field of communications, residing within the application layer of the OSI reference model. System requirements are examined and transaction processing is defined. Implementation of transaction processing is discussed within the context of current international standards and available technology, together with the special problems inherent in applying a transaction processing model to a global plant species information system.