The MicroProfile specification aims to propose a standard solution about the management of the transactions in distributed systems as microservices, based on the saga pattern.
The specification is Long Running Actions (LRA) for MicroProfile: it's built by the Narayana team under the Eclipse MicroProfile initiative. Currently, it is in a "in progress" state, and it is one of the main topics under discussion in the community.
It proposes a new API for the coordination of long-running activities: the approach would be totally different from the one implemented, for example, in the Extended Architecture. The target is to guarantee a globally consistent outcome without the need to set locks on data that limits the scalability of the system.
The Narayana LRA implementation is based on the standard specifications provided by Java EE/Jakarta EE and MicroProfile...
