Compensation is not enough [fault-handling and compensation mechanism]

Author

Greenfield, Paul ; Fekete, Alan ; Jang, Julian ; Kuo, Dean

Author_Institution

CSIRO Math. & Inf. Sci., North Ryde, NSW, Australia

fYear

2003

fDate

16-19 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

232

Lastpage

239

Abstract

An important problem in designing infrastructure to support business-to-business integration (B2Bi) is how to cancel a long-running interaction (either because the user has changed their mind, or in response to an unrecoverable failure). We review the fault-handling and compensation mechanism that is now used in most workflow products and business process modeling standards. We then use an e-procurement case-study to extract a set of requirements for an effective cancellation mechanism, and we show that the standard approach using fault-handling, and compensation transactions is not adequate to meet these requirements.

Keywords

compensation; corporate modelling; electronic commerce; enterprise resource planning; exception handling; middleware; workflow management software; B2Bi; atomicity; business process automation; business process modeling; business-to-business integration; cancellation mechanism; compensation mechanism; compensation transactions; e-procurement case-study; enterprise application integration; fault-handling; infrastructure design; long-running interaction; middleware; workflow products; Australia; Computer languages; Java; Mathematical model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2003. Proceedings. Seventh IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1994-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDOC.2003.1233852

Filename

1233852