Question

We are having a REST WCF service.
we want the save operation on this REST service to be in transaction.
Is there a way to pass Transaction object over the wire to REST WCF service?

Answer 1

Here is a quote from Roy Fielding, the guy who invented the term REST

If you find yourself in need of a
distributed transaction protocol, then
how can you possibly say that your
architecture is based on REST? I
simply cannot see how you can get from
one situation (of using RESTful
application state on the client and
hypermedia to determine all state
transitions) to the next situation of
needing distributed agreement of
transaction semantics wherein the
client has to tell the server how to
manage its own resources.

…for now I consider “rest transaction”
to be an oxymoron.

This is from a message on the REST-discuss list from June 9th, 2009.