A CORBA Compliant Transactional Workflow System for Internet Applications (1998)

Author(s): Wheater SM, Shrivastava SK, Ranno F

    Abstract: The paper describes an application composition and execution environment implemented as a transactional workflow system that enables sets of inter-related tasks to be carried out and supervised in a dependable manner. The paper describes how the system meets the requirements of interoperability, scalability, flexible task composition, dependability and dynamic reconfiguration. The system is general purpose and open: it has been designed and implemented as a set of CORBA services, running on top of a given ORB. The system serves as an example of the use of middleware technologies to provide a fault-tolerant execution environment for long running distributed applications.

      • Date: 1998
      • Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series
      • Pages: 15
      • Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
      • Publication type: Report
      • Bibliographic status: Published

      Keywords: cobra, middleware, distributed systems, transactions, fault-tolerance, workflow systems

      Staff

      Emeritus Professor Santosh Shrivastava
      Emeritus Professor

      Dr Stuart Wheater
      Visiting Fellow