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Exception based Dynamic Service Coordination Framework for Web Services

웹 서비스를 위한 예외 상황 기반 동적 서비스 연결 프레임워크

  • 한동수 (한국정보통신대학교 공학부) ;
  • 이성독 (한국정보통신대학교 공학부) ;
  • 정종하 (한국정보통신대학교 공학부)
  • Published : 2006.08.01
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Abstract

Web services on the Internet are not always reliable in terms of service availability and performance. Dynamic service coordination capability of a system or an application invoking Web services is essential to cope with such unreliable situations. In dynamic service coordination, if a Web service does not respond within a specific time constraint, it is replaced with another Web service at run time for reliable invocation of Web services. In this paper, we develop an exception based dynamic service coordination framework for Web services. In the framework, all necessary information for dynamic service coordination is explicitly specified and summarized as a set of attributes. Then classes and workflows, supporting dynamic service coordination and invoking Web services, are automatically created based on these attributes. Developers of Web services client programs can make the invocations of Web services reliable by calling the methods of the classes. Some performance loss has been observed in the indirect invocation of a Web service. However, when we consider the flexibility and reliability gained from the method, the performance loss would be acceptable in many cases.

인터넷상에서 접근 가능한 웹 서비스는 가용성 및 성능적 측면에서 신뢰성이 항상 보장되지는 못한다. 동적 서비스 연결 (dynamic service coordination) 기법은 웹 서비스를 호출하는 시스템이나 응용 프로그램에서 이 같이 신뢰할 수 없는 상황에 대처할 수 있는 꼭 필요한 기술이다. 웹 서비스의 신뢰적인 호출을 보장해 주기 위해서 동적 서비스 연결 기법에서는 특정 웹 서비스가 정해진 시간 내에서 응답하지 못할 경우 실행 중에 해당 웹 서비스를 다른 웹 서비스로 대체하여 수행한다. 본 논문에서는 웹 서비스를 위한 예외 상황 기반 동적 서비스 연결 프레임워크를 제안한다. 이 프레임워크에서 동적 서비스 연결에 필요한 모든 정보들은 속성 (attributes) 집합 형태에 의해서 명시적으로 기술된다. 본 논문에서 고안된 동적서비스 연결 기법은 기술된 속성 정보를 기반으로 동적 서비스 연결이 가능한 클래스 또는 워크플로우를 자동으로 생성하고, 생성된 클래스 함수를 통해 웹 서비스를 간접적으로 호출함으로써 신뢰성 있는 웹 서비스 호출을 지원한다. 제안된 방식은 웹 서비스 호출 작업이 간접적으로 이뤄지기 때문에 이에 초래되는 약간의 성능적 손실을 피할 수는 없지만, 이 방법을 통해서 얻어지는 시스템의 유연성 (flexibility) 과 신뢰성 (reliability)를 고려할 때, 다소의 성능적 손실은 많은 경우에 있어서 허용될 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

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