Web Services offer great promise for integrating and automating software applications within
and between enterprises over the Internet. However, ensuring that Web Services can satisfy …

Due to the widespread use of web services by enterprises, the need to ensure their reliability
has become crucial. There are several standards that intend to govern how web services are …

Abstract Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) is a SOAP-based protocol for exchanging
SOAP messages with guaranteed delivery, no duplicates, and guaranteed message …

The Web services architecture is expected to play a prominent role in developing next
generation distributed systems. This chapter discusses how to build dependable systems …

In this paper, we address the problem of improving the availability and correctness of Web
Services. An architectural approach is proposed that incorporates fault-tolerant techniques …

Today Web services-specifically distributed services that process XML-encoded SOAP
messages, sent over HTTP, and described using Web Services Description Language …

This paper discusses the issues involved in supporting high-volume, highly-reliable, Web
services. Such services pose a number of diverse technical challenges. The paper …

This specification (WS-ReliableMessaging) describes a protocol that allows messages to be
transferred reliably between nodes implementing this protocol in the presence of software …

Web services are a business-driven technology, as they have arisen from a need for on-
demand services and just-in-time integration to enable the rapid exploitation of market …

Although in principle independent of any particular messaging protocol, Web Services are
primarily accessed using SOAP over HTTP in practice. As SOAP provides no message …