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ReLock: a resilient two-phase locking RESTful transaction model

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Service composition and supporting transactions across composed services are among the major challenges characterizing service-oriented computing. REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is one of the approaches used for implementing Web services that is gaining momentum thanks to its features making it suitable for cloud computing and microservices-based contexts. This paper introduces ReLock, a resilient RESTful transaction model introducing general purpose transactions on RESTful services by a layered approach and a two-phase locking mechanism not requesting any change to the RESTful services involved in a transaction.

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This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Blue Cloud project (Grant Agreement No. 862409).

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  1. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy

    Luca Frosini, Pasquale Pagano, Leonardo Candela & Manuele Simi

  2. HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

    Manuele Simi

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Cinzia Bernardeschi

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Frosini, L., Pagano, P., Candela, L. et al. ReLock: a resilient two-phase locking RESTful transaction model. SOCA 15, 75–92 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11761-020-00311-z

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