Abstract
Asynchronous invocations are an important functionality in the context of distributed object frameworks, because in many situations clients should not block during remote invocations. There should be a loose coupling between clients and remote services. Popular web service frameworks, such as Apache Axis, offer only synchronous invocations (over HTTP). An alternative are messaging protocols but these implement a different communication paradigm. When client asynchrony is not supported, client developers have to build asynchronous invocations on top of the synchronous invocation facility. But this is tedious, error-prone, and might result in different remote invocation styles used within the same application. In this paper we build a framework using patterns for asynchronous invocation of web services. The framework design is based on the asynchrony patterns and other patterns from the same pattern language.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Alexander, C.: The Timeless Way of Building. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford (1979)
Apache Software Foundation. Web services invocation framework, WSIF (2002), http://ws.apache.org/wsif/
Apache Software Foundation. Apache axis (2003), http://ws.apache.org/axis/
Box, D., Ehnebuske, D., Kakivaya, G., Layman, A., Mendelsohn, N., Nielsen, H.F., Thatte, S., Winer, D.: Simple object access protocol (SOAP) 1.1 (2000), http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/
Bray, T., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C.: Extensible markup language (XML) 1.0 (1998), http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210
Christensen, E., Curbera, F., Meredith, G., Weerawarana, S.: Web services description language (WSDL) 1.1 (2001), http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl
Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frysyk, H., Masinter, L., Leach, P., Berners-Lee, T.: Hypertext transfer protocol – HTTP/1.1. RFC 2616 (1999)
Gamma, E., Helm, R., Johnson, R., Vlissides, J.: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley, Reading (1994)
Group, O.M.: Common request broker architecture, corba (2000), http://www.omg.org/corba
IBM developerWorks. Httpr specification (2002), http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-httprspec/
Johnson, R.E., Foote, B.: Designing reusable classes. Journal of Object-Oriented Programming 1(2), 22–35 (1988)
Kircher, M., Jain, P.: Pooling pattern. In: Proceedings of EuroPlop 2002, Irsee, Germany (July 2002)
Mircrosoft.NET framework (2003), http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework
Neumann, G., Zdun, U.: Distributed web application development with active web objects. In: Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Internet Computing (IC 2001), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (June 2001)
Schmidt, D.C., Stal, M., Rohnert, H., Buschmann, F.: Patterns for Concurrent and Distributed Objects. In: Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture. J.Wiley and Sons Ltd., Chichester (2000)
Voelter, M., Kircher, M., Zdun, U.: Object-oriented remoting: A pattern language. In: Proceeding of The First Nordic Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (VikingPLoP 2002), Denmark (September 2002), http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/~uzdun/publications/vikingPlop02.pdf
Voelter, M., Kircher, M., Zdun, U.: Patterns for asynchronous invocations in distributed object frameworks. submitted, a draft can be found (2003), at http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/~uzdun/publications/AsynchronyDraft.pdf
Winer, D.: XML-RPC specification (1999), http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Zdun, U., Voelter, M., Kircher, M. (2003). Design and Implementation of an Asynchronous Invocation Framework for Web Services. In: Jeckle, M., Zhang, LJ. (eds) Web Services - ICWS-Europe 2003. ICWS-Europe 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2853. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39872-1_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39872-1_6
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-20125-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-39872-1
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive