A TIMESTAMP-BASED TWO PHASE COMMIT PROTOCOL FOR WEB SERVICES USING REST ARCHITECTURAL STYLE
Keywords:
Architectural style, concurrency control, REST, transaction, timestamp, web services, two phase commit protocolAbstract
Service Oriented Architecture allows development of software with requirements of in- teroperability and weak coupling. Nowadays WS-* is the most used SOAP-based spec- ification set for constructing web services. REST is an architectural style that permits the development of services in a simpler way than WS-* and obeys the SOA’s paradigm, however, it does not provide standardized support to address some non-functional re- quirements of services, such as, security, reliability, and transaction control. This article proposes a REST-based technique to support the web services transactional control implementation. The technique uses the timestamp method and two phase commit pro- tocol to control distributed systems transactions. An example of application using the technique is implemented to show its feasibility.
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