Principles of transaction processing: for the systems professional
Principles of transaction processing: for the systems professional
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
A survey of rollback-recovery protocols in message-passing systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
Recovery Guarantees for General Multi-Tier Applications
ICDE '02 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Data Engineering
Improving Logging and Recovery Performance in Phoenix/App
ICDE '04 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering
Recovery guarantees for Internet applications
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Log-based recovery for middleware servers
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Dependability, Abstraction, and Programming
DASFAA '09 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
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Web services represent the latest effort of the information technology industry to provide a framework for cross enterprise automation. One principal characteristic of this framework is information hiding, where only the message protocol is visible to other services or client software. This environment makes it difficult to provide robust behavior for applications. Traditional transaction processing uses distributed transactions. But these involve inter-site dependencies that enterprises are likely to resist so as to preserve site autonomy. We propose a web services interaction contract (WSIC), a unilateral pledge by a web service. A WSIC avoids dependencies while enabling, but not requiring, an application to be written so that it can provide exactly once execution semantics, even in the presence of failures. And exactly once semantics is essential whenever commercial interactions involve money.