A fault tolerant object transaction service in CORBA

Author

Liang, Deron ; Lo, Win-Tsung ; Kao, Y.M. ; Yuan, S.M. ; Chang, Yue-Shan

Author_Institution

Inst. of Inf. Sci., Acad. Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

1997

fDate

11-15 Aug 1997

Firstpage

115

Lastpage

120

Abstract

The concept of transactions is not only indispensable in database applications, but also useful in building robust software for mission critical applications. The paper presents an implementation of the Object Transaction Service (OTS) based on CORBA 2.0 specification. Transactional applications developed with the support of our OTS implementation are able to assure the ACID properties even in the presence of node crashes, software system failures and process hangs. The preliminary results obtained from the experiments on Sun workstations with Orbix 1.3 show that the overhead due to the OTS service is satisfactory for most applications

Keywords

object-oriented databases; object-oriented methods; software fault tolerance; transaction processing; ACID properties; CORBA 2 specification; OTS implementation; Object Transaction Service; Orbix; Sun workstations; database applications; fault tolerant object transaction service; mission critical applications; node crashes; process hangs; robust software; software system failures; transactional applications; Application software; Computer crashes; Computer networks; Fault tolerance; Mission critical systems; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Programming environments; Robustness; Transaction databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1997. COMPSAC '97. Proceedings., The Twenty-First Annual International

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8105-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1997.624773

Filename

624773