Understanding XML Web Services

Author(s):  
Tom Barnaby
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netWorker ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Win Treese
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Author(s):  
Ying Zou ◽  
Kostas Kontogiannis

With the widespread use of the Web, distributed object technologies have been widely adopted to construct network-centric architectures, using XML, Web Services, CORBA, and DCOM. Organizations would like to take advantage of the Web in its various forms of Internet, Intranet and Extranets. This requires organizations to port and integrate their legacy assets to distributed Web-enabled environments, so that the functionality of existing legacy systems can be leveraged without having to rebuild these systems. In this chapter, we provide techniques to re-engineer standalone legacy systems into Web-enabled environments. Specifically, we aim for a framework that allows for the identification of reusable business logic entities in large legacy systems in the form of major legacy components, the migration of these procedural components to an object-oriented design, the specification of interfaces of these identified components, the automatic generation of CORBA wrappers to enable remote access, and finally, the seamless interoperation with Web services via HTTP based on the SOAP messaging mechanism.


Author(s):  
Debmalya Biswas ◽  
Il-Gon Kim

Active XML (AXML) provides an elegant platform to integrate the power of XML, Web services and Peer to Peer (P2P) paradigms by allowing (active) Web service calls to be embedded within XML documents. In this chapter, the authors present some interesting aspects encountered while investigating a transactional framework for AXML systems. They present an integrated locking protocol for the scenario where the structure of both data and transactions are nested. They show how to construct the undo operations dynamically, and outline an algorithm to compute a correct optimum undo order in the presence of nesting and parallelism. Finally, to overcome the inherent problem of peer disconnection, the authors propose an innovative solution based on ”chaining” the active peers for early detection and recovery from peer disconnection.


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