doi: 10.4304/jsw.2.1.14-26
Building Dependable and Secure Web Services
- 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115
Abstract
Web Services offer great promise for integratingand automating software applications within and betweenenterprises over the Internet. However, ensuring that WebServices can satisfy their clients’ requests when their clientsneed them is a real challenge. In this paper we describedependability technologies, including transparent SOAPconnection failover, replication, checkpointing and messagelogging, in addition to reliable messaging and transactionmanagement for which there exist Web Services specifications.We also present security technologies, includingencryption and digital signatures for which Web Servicesspecifications exist, as well as other security technologies.We discuss how these technologies can be applied to thecomponents of a typical Web Services architecture to renderbusiness activities that span multiple enterprises dependableand secure.
Keywords
- Availability
- business activity
- consist
How to Cite
L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, and W. Zhao, "Building Dependable and Secure Web Services," Journal of Software, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 14-26, 2007. https://doi.org/ 10.4304/jsw.2.1.14-26
Copyright & License
Copyright © 2007 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).