The Web Services-BusinessActivity-Initiator (WS-BA-I) Protocol: an Extension to the Web Services-BusinessActivity Specification

Authors: 
Hannes Erven
Georg Hicker
Christian Huemer
Marco Zapletal
Type: 
Speech with proceedings
Proceedings: 
2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007)
Publisher: 
IEEE Computer Society
Pages: 
216 - 224
ISBN: 
ISBN: 0-7695-2924-0
Year: 
2007
Abstract: 
The Web Services Transaction protocol family includes the WS-AtomicTransaction and the WSBusinessActivity specifications in order to carry out distributed transactions in a Web Services (WS) environment. The WS-AtomicTransaction specification defines all necessary interfaces to carry out transactional work. In contrary, the WS-BusinessActivity specification for long-running transactions intentionally left the interface between initiator and coordinator undefined. This allows vendors to integrate WS-BusinessActivity coordinators into their business process engines. However, it requires proprietary protocols between initiator and coordinator. We propose an extension protocol to the WS-BusinessActivity specification that explicitly defines this interface between initiator and coordinator. This extension allows coordinators and initiators from different vendors to interoperate transparently. Accordingly, participants no longer need to trust an initiator-selected and likely initiator-run coordination service, but may use commonly trusted, third-party coordination services.
TU Focus: 
Information and Communication Technology
Reference: 

H. Erven, G. Hicker, C. Huemer, M. Zapletal:
"The Web Services-BusinessActivity-Initiator (WS-BA-I) Protocol: an Extension to the Web Services-BusinessActivity Specification";
Vortrag: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 09.07.2007 - 13.07.2007; in: "2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007)", IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA (2007), ISBN: 0-7695-2924-0; S. 216 - 224.

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17.12.2007 16:47:00
TU Id: 
141391
Accepted: 
Accepted
Invited: 
Department Focus: 
Business Informatics
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Author List: 
H. Erven, G. Hicker, C. Huemer, M. Zapletal