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The World of e-Business: Web-Services, Workflows, and Business Transactions

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Abstract

Process oriented workflow systems and e-business applications require transactional support in order to orchestrate loosely coupled services into cohesive units of work and guarantee consistent and reliable execution.

In this paper we introduce a multi-level transaction model that provides the necessary independence for the participating resource managers, e.g., local database and workflow servers of organisations, engaging in business transactions composed of interacting web-services. We also present taxonomy of e-business transactions features such as unconventional atomicity criteria, the need for support for business conversations and the need for distinguishing between three basic elements within a business transaction. In addition, we argue that an extensible framework such as the Business Transaction Protocol (BTP) proposed by OASIS is necessary for building robust and extendible e-business applications.

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  1. Infolab, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, Netherlands

    Michael P. Papazoglou

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  1. Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA, 94065, USA

    Christoph Bussler

  2. Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2D-510, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974, USA

    Richard Hull

  3. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-9020, USA

    Sheila McIlraith

  4. School of Info. Technology and Elec. Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia

    Maria E. Orlowska

  5. Department of Electronic and Information Science, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Barbara Pernici

  6. Infolab, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000, LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Jian Yang

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Papazoglou, M.P. (2002). The World of e-Business: Web-Services, Workflows, and Business Transactions. In: Bussler, C., Hull, R., McIlraith, S., Orlowska, M.E., Pernici, B., Yang, J. (eds) Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web. WES 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2512. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36189-8_12

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