Compensation is Not Enough

  • Authors:
  • Paul Greenfield;Alan Fekete;Julian Jang;Dean Kuo

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • EDOC '03 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

An important problem in designing infrastructure tosupport business-to-business integration (B2Bi) is how to cancel along-running interaction (either because the user has changed theirmind, or in response to an unrecoverable failure). We review thefault-handling and compensation mechanism that is now used in mostworkflow products and business process modelling standards. Wethen use an e-procurement case-study to extract a set of requirementsfor an effective cancellation mechanism, and we show that thestandard approach using fault-handling, and compensationtransactions is not adequate to meet these requirements.