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Exception based Dynamic Service Coordination Framework for Web Services  

Han Dong-Soo (한국정보통신대학교 공학부)
Lee Sung-Doke (한국정보통신대학교 공학부)
Jung Jong-Ha (한국정보통신대학교 공학부)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.33, no.8, 2006 , pp. 668-680 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Web services; Dynamic Service Coordination; Workflow System; Exception Handling; WebVine;
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