Enforcing Web Services Business Protocols at Run-Time: a Process Driven Approach

TitleEnforcing Web Services Business Protocols at Run-Time: a Process Driven Approach
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2006
AuthorsBiörnstad, B., C. Pautasso, and G. Alonso
JournalInternational Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET)
Volume2
Issue4
Pages396-411
ISSN1476-1289
Keywordsbusiness process modeling, business protocols, choreography, conversation controller, data flow, JOpera, Web services
Abstract

Business processes provide abstractions for modelling business protocols that define the correct interactions between two or more Web services (WS). It has been shown that it is possible to automatically derive role-specific processes from a global protocol definition and also statically verify the compliance of a local process with the corresponding global business process. In this paper, we show that a similar approach can be used at run-time. We propose to employ process-based tools to enforce that the messages exchanged between different WS comply with a given business protocol, both in terms of sequencing constraints and data flow characteristics. Our solution simplifies the implementation of WS because it helps to separate the concern of business protocol compliance from the actual service implementation. To do so, we show how to transparently add a protocol enforcement layer to the WS messaging stack. Our experimental results indicate that this imposes a minimal overhead.

URLhttp://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=10422
DOI10.1504/IJWET.2006.010422
Citation Key115
Refereed DesignationRefereed