Message tracking in SOAP-based Web services

As web services become more prevalent, the nature of electronic transactions on the Internet changes from simple browser-to-business clicks to an orchestrated flow of messages between cross-enterprise services. Consequently, more than one service could participate in the federated execution of a single transaction. In such cases, the problem of end-to-end management becomes very important. The inherent crossenterprise or distributed nature of the problem, security of information exchanged, and the complexity in correlating related messages into a single transaction make this problem challenging. In this paper, we present an approach to track and correlate messages between web services that are part of a single transaction. We do this by proposing management information exchange agreements between service providers, and a distributed message tracking algorithm that is executed within each service provider. We also explain the techniques for realizing our solution in the case of web ser...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: NOMS
• Authors: Akhil Sahai, Vijay Machiraju, Jinsong Ouyang, Klaus Wurster
• Keywords: Communications, End-to-end Management, NOMS 2002, Single Transaction, Web Services