Constraint Rules-based Recovery for Business Transaction

In web service computing, a business transaction is integrated by web services provided by multiple enterprises, therefore the transaction is deployed in a loose-coupled, heterogeneous and autonomous environment. When failures or exceptions occur, the traditional rolling back technique is inappropriate for recovery since locking is inapplicable. Current solutions, including forward recovery and backward recovery, didn´t take into consideration enough business logic of the business transaction and thus were lack of flexibility and efficiency. In this paper, we introduce the conception-constraint rule, which express the business logic of a business transaction. A better control of recovery is achieved based on the constraint rules. A detailed description of our algorithms for recovery is given and a travel agency case study is illustrated. In addition, we compare our recovery mechanism with some existing solutions and the simulation results show that our method has both better success rate and efficiency.