A Lightweight Fault Tolerance Framework for Web Services

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a lightweight fault tolerance framework for Web services. With our framework, a Web service can be rendered fault tolerant by replicating it across several nodes. A consensusbased algorithm is used to ensure total ordering of the requests to...

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Published in:Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence pp. 542 - 548
Main Author: Zhao, Wenbing
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 02.11.2007
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Information systems > Information retrieval > Evaluation of retrieval results
Information systems > World Wide Web > Web applications
Information systems > World Wide Web > Web services
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Designing software
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Designing software > Requirements analysis
Theory of computation > Semantics and reasoning > Program reasoning > Program specifications
ISBN:0769530265, 9780769530260
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Summary:In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a lightweight fault tolerance framework for Web services. With our framework, a Web service can be rendered fault tolerant by replicating it across several nodes. A consensusbased algorithm is used to ensure total ordering of the requests to the replicated Web service, and to ensure consistent membership view among the replicas. The framework is built by extending an open-source implementation of the WS-ReliableMessaging specification, and all reliable message exchanges in our framework conform to the specification. As such, our framework does not depend on any proprietary messaging and transport protocols, which is consistent with the Web services design principles. Our performance evaluation shows that our implementation is nearly optimal and the framework incurs only moderate runtime overhead.
ISBN:0769530265
9780769530260
DOI:10.1109/WI.2007.11