Developing distributed application architectures characterized by high availability has always been a challenging and important task both for the academic and the industrial communities. Additionally, the related requirement for dynamic upgradeability is usually examined within the same context as it also aims for high availability. Although a number of architectures and techniques have been proposed and developed for improving the availability and upgradeability of traditional distributed systems, not many of them are directly applicable to Web service-based architectures. Recently, Web services have become the most popular paradigm for business-to-business and enterprise application integration architectures, which makes their availability increasingly important. This paper builds on existing high availability and dynamic upgradeability techniques which can be applied to Web service-based systems. Based on them it describes an architecture which enables high availability and dynamic upgradeability both for newly developed and for prefabricated Web services.
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Paspallis, N., Papadopoulos, G.A. (2007). An Architecture for Highly Available and Dynamically Upgradeable Web Services. In: Magyar, G., Knapp, G., Wojtkowski, W., Wojtkowski, W.G., Zupančič, J. (eds) Advances in Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70761-7_13
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