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I know it’s been a while since my last post; however, I hope to make up for it today with quality versus quantity. As mentioned previously, I took a graduate class, Fault-Tolerant Computing, last Spring and wrote a research paper for my final project. BTW I thought the professor for the course, Yashwant Malaiya, was great. If you’re looking for a good course on the subject I can’t imagine it getting much better than that one :).

So during the class, I decided to write about fault-tolerance within Web services. My main curiosity was: are there special considerations when applying autonomic, or self-managing, methods to the varying “styles” of Web services available? The abstract expresses this with a little more detail:

Abstract—Web services enable networked systems, typically based upon the World Wide Web (WWW), and their related services, to interoperate. Moreover, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Extensible Markup Language, Remote Procedure Call (XML-RPC), and Representational State Transfer (REST) are architectural styles of networked systems, upon which Web Services are implemented. Given the growing dependence and criticality of these services for users, fault tolerance plays an increasingly important role in providing usable and reliable services. With the advent of autonomic computing, or self-managing computer systems, research groups have been pursuing methods of combining fault tolerant autonomic approaches with Web services. This paper reviews research and progress to date of those autonomic methods and researches Web services architectural style support of autonomic methods.

Since research is all about sharing and collaboration, all are welcome to read it.

The HTML version is here

The PDF version is here

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