A FLEXIBLE MODEL FOR PROVIDING TRANSACTIONAL BEHAVIOR TO SERVICE COORDINATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL WAY

Alberto Portilla, Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Christine Collet, José-Luis Zechinelli-Martini, Luciano Garcia-Bañuelos

2007

Abstract

A key step towards consistent services coordination is providing non functional properties. In that sense, transactional properties are particularly relevant because of the business nature of current applications. While services composition has been successfully addressed, transactional properties of services composition have been mainly provided by ad-hoc and limited solutions at systems’ back end. This paper proposes a transactional behavior model for services coordination. We assume that given a flow describing the application logic of a service based application, it is possible to associate to it a personalized transactional behavior in an orthogonal way. This behavior is defined by specifying contracts and associating a well defined behavior to the activities participating in the coordination. Such contracts ensure transactional properties at execution time in the presence of exceptions.

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Portilla A., Vargas-Solar G., Collet C., Zechinelli-Martini J. and Garcia-Bañuelos L. (2007). A FLEXIBLE MODEL FOR PROVIDING TRANSACTIONAL BEHAVIOR TO SERVICE COORDINATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL WAY . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-77-1, pages 104-111. DOI: 10.5220/0001289001040111


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@conference{webist07,
author={Alberto Portilla and Genoveva Vargas-Solar and Christine Collet and José-Luis Zechinelli-Martini and Luciano Garcia-Bañuelos},
title={A FLEXIBLE MODEL FOR PROVIDING TRANSACTIONAL BEHAVIOR TO SERVICE COORDINATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL WAY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2007},
pages={104-111},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001289001040111},
isbn={978-972-8865-77-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - A FLEXIBLE MODEL FOR PROVIDING TRANSACTIONAL BEHAVIOR TO SERVICE COORDINATION IN AN ORTHOGONAL WAY
SN - 978-972-8865-77-1
AU - Portilla A.
AU - Vargas-Solar G.
AU - Collet C.
AU - Zechinelli-Martini J.
AU - Garcia-Bañuelos L.
PY - 2007
SP - 104
EP - 111
DO - 10.5220/0001289001040111