A Fault Tolerant Web Services Architecture Based Reflection

Web services have been enjoying great popularities in recent years. The high usability of the Web service is becoming a new focus for research. How to provide generic fault tolerant mechanisms in Web services is worth researching. A fault tolerant web services architecture named Fault Tolerant Web Services is proposed in the article. In the architecture, the fault tolerant mechanisms are transparent and easy to use. The users can tailor their own fault tolerance mechanisms and the application programmers almost neednpsilat to care the fault tolerant mechanisms. The Architecture is set forth in detail in the article. The workflow of the system is narrated by three states of a fault tolerant Web service.