A Taxonomy of Web Services Using CSP
Author(s) -
Lee Momtahan,
Andrew Martin,
A. W. Roscoe
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
electronic notes in theoretical computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.242
H-Index - 60
ISSN - 1571-0661
DOI - 10.1016/j.entcs.2005.07.037
Subject(s) - stateless protocol , computer science , web service , taxonomy (biology) , service oriented architecture , scalability , process calculus , formalism (music) , world wide web , formal description , theoretical computer science , programming language , database , state (computer science) , musical , botany , visual arts , biology , art
Terms such as conversational and stateless are widely used in the taxonomy of web services. We give formal definitions of these terms using the CSP process algebra. Within this framework we also define the notion of Service-Oriented Architecture. These definitions are then used to prove important scalability properties of stateless services. The use of formalism should allow recent debates, concerning how and whether web services provide standardized access to state, to progress more rigorously
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