Committing or Aborting a Transaction

Because Component Services tracks transaction processing, it determines whether a transaction has completed successfully or failed. A script can explicitly declare that it is aborting a transaction by calling the ASP built-in object method ObjectContext.SetAbort. For example, your script might abort a transaction if it receives an error from a component, if a business rule is violated (for example, if the account balance falls below 0), or if a nontransactional operation (such as reading from or writing to a file) fails. The transaction is also aborted if the page times out before the transaction is completed.