Title: Decentralised web-services orchestration with continuation-passing messaging

Authors: Weihai Yu; Abul Ahsan Md. Mahmudul Haque

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, University of Tromso, N-9037 Tromso, Norway. ' Department of Computer Science, University of Tromso, N-9037 Tromso, Norway

Abstract: Traditional centralised approaches to orchestrating composite services are subject to serious limitations for orchestrating services in open web applications. Dealing with these limitations calls for decentralised approaches, which are themselves faced with a number of technical challenges, due primarily to lack of overview of dynamic process status. We present a new decentralised approach that meets some of these technical challenges. The approach is based on continuation-passing messaging. It facilitates dynamic runtime tasks like fault handling and process recovery. Our experimental results show performance advantage of the approach, both in normal executions and in case of service failures.

Keywords: web services; decentralised orchestration; continuation-passing messaging; service composition; scalability; fault handling; process recovery.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2011.043532

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2011 Vol.7 No.3, pp.304 - 330

Published online: 17 Apr 2015 *

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