On Dec 27, 5:17 pm, Lew <l...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > I would solve this a little further upstream, if possible. What, for
> > example, causes the table to change? Is there someone or something
> > that creates a transaction that enters data? Could your program become
> > the "business logic" layer that sits in between that and the database?
>
> Isn't this the sort of thing they invented BPEL for?
>
> The insight is that business processes interlock and interact. A
process
> control system, perhaps with a process control language like BPEL gluing
> things together, orchestrates the various business processes that must
> coordinate, as in this case, a web application and a database
application.
The OP never mentions a web application, just a database, but yes, in
theory BPEL should do the trick. But I find that BPEL today is still
"immature" in a sense that it still feels like that '50s IBM computer:
big, bulky, expensive, hard to use....
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