BPMN2 — Page 192, Table 10-21 Transaction types need explanation

Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

At p. 192 of the specification, the TransactionMethod can be of type
Compensate, Store,Image.

A small text describing these variants would be useful, since only stating
terms can lead to various interpretation.

The same issue apply for the BPMN 1.2 specification at (p.281) B.11.19.

Table 10.21:
Current:
method: TransactionMethod = compensate

TransactionMethod is an attribute that defines the technique that will be used to undo a Transaction that has been cancelled. The default is compensate, but the attribute
MAY be set to store or IMAGE.
New:
method: string
TransactionMethod is an attribute that defines the transaction method used to commit or cancel a transaction. For executable processes, it SHOULD be set to a
technology specific URI, e.g., http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/10/wsat for WS-AtomicTransaction, or http://docs.oasis-open.org/wstx/
wsba/2006/06/AtomicOutcome for WS-BusinessActivity. For compatibility with BPMN 1.1, it can also be set to "##compensate", "##store", or "##image".