Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with transactional workflow support is a state- of- the- art architectural style for constructing enterprise application. In this research, rate of progress activities raise distributed service in a coordinated manner, using transaction context propagating message, coordination protocol and compensation logic. We reviewed the past, present and future of transaction processing and transaction integrity. Most of the challenges and requirement that led to the development and evolution of transaction processing system are still applicable today and recently, we have some intriguing developments. We take an explorative approach to probe the theoretical and implementational feasibility of managing transaction in the web service world.