The cosTransaction application is compliant with the OMG CosTransactions specification 1.1. Using other vendors transaction service, compliant with the OMG CosTransactions specification 1.0, may not work since the 'TRANSACTION_REQUIRED', 'TRANSACTION_ROLLEDBACK' and 'INVALID_TRANSACTION' exceptions have been redefined to be system exceptions, i.e., used to be transaction-specific ('CosTransactions_Exc').