Dynamic Transactional Workflows in Service-oriented Environments

David Paul, Frans Henskens, Michael Hannaford

2013

Abstract

Transactions in service-oriented environments, such as those provided by Web Services, traditionally support a reduced set of the ACID properties. This has typically required providers to constantly offer a fixed level of transaction support for each client request to a service. Further, clients have been limited in their ability to combine services with different transactional guarantees into a single workflow. We present a mechanism that allows the dynamic specification of transaction support for a given service call, and a cost-based model that allows clients to automatically reason about workflows consisting of service requests with various levels of transaction support. A Web Services transactions simulator is used to verify the viability of this dynamic transaction scheme, with results indicating potential benefits for both service providers and clients.

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Paul D., Henskens F. and Hannaford M. (2013). Dynamic Transactional Workflows in Service-oriented Environments . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8565-54-9, pages 26-36. DOI: 10.5220/0004368000260036


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@conference{webist13,
author={David Paul and Frans Henskens and Michael Hannaford},
title={Dynamic Transactional Workflows in Service-oriented Environments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2013},
pages={26-36},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004368000260036},
isbn={978-989-8565-54-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Dynamic Transactional Workflows in Service-oriented Environments
SN - 978-989-8565-54-9
AU - Paul D.
AU - Henskens F.
AU - Hannaford M.
PY - 2013
SP - 26
EP - 36
DO - 10.5220/0004368000260036