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Experimenting with exception propagation mechanisms in service-oriented architecture

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Anatoliy Gorbenko,

Alexander Romanovsky,

Vyacheslav Kharchenko,

Alexey MikhaylichenkoAuthors Info & Claims

WEH '08: Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Exception handling

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1454268.1454269

Published: 14 November 2008 Publication History

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Exception handling is one of the popular means used for improving dependability and supporting recovery in the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This practical experience paper presents the results of error and fault injection into Web Services. We summarize our experiments with the SOA-specific exception handling features provided by the two development kits: the Sun Microsystems JAX-RPC and the IBM WebSphere Software Developer Kit for Web Services. The main focus of the paper is on analyzing exception propagation and performance as the major factors affecting fault tolerance (in, particular, error handling, and fault diagnosis) in Web Services.

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Experimenting with exception propagation mechanisms in service-oriented architecture
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications

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