Fault-tolerance for Stateful Application
Servers in the Presence of Advanced Transactions Patterns
H. Wu,
B. Kemme
Abstract:
Replication is widely used in application server products to tolerate
faults. An important challenge is to correctly coordinate replication
and transaction execution for stateful application servers. Many
current solutions assume that a single client request generates exactly
one transaction at the server. However, it is quite common that several
client requests are encapsulated within one server transaction or that
a single client request can initiate several server transactions. In
this paper, we propose a replication tool that is able to handle these
variations in request/transaction association. We have integrated our
approach into the J2EE application server JBoss. Our evaluation using
the ECPerf benchmark shows a low overhead of the approach.
Proc. of the IEEE Symp. on Reliable
Distributed Systems
(SRDS), Orlando, Florida, October 2005.
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