Hi, I have an architectural problem in maintaining consistency between globally distributed databases. I am developing a banking application using Java. The bank has several branches located in various countries. All the branches will be coordinated from a central location. The central location will have a database, and each branch will have its own database, so as to function in offline mode in case of connection failure. For each transaction, that is made by a branch, both the central databse, and the branch database should get updated. How do we handle the transactions, and failures in this scenario? Could any one suggest me with a design solution for this? thanks in advance. Venkat.    More>>