Splitting a transaction at different levels for revert and contention avaoidance, an example application would be a hotel/flight reservation system.
Use this pattern only for operations that must be undone if they fail. If possible, design solutions to avoid the complexity of requiring compensating transactions.
The main program sets up an examplary routing slip (all the classes are in the one file) and creates three completely independent "processes" (activity hosts) that are each responsible for handling a particular kind of work. The "processes" are linked by a "network" and each kind of activity has an address for forward progress work and one of compensation work. The network resolution is simulated by 'Send".
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