A replication framework for program-to-program interaction across unreliable networks and its implementation in a servlet container

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 701-724

  Bartoli, Alberto ^a   Prica, Milan ^a   Di Muro, Etienne Antoniutti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axis; Group communication; HTTP reliability; Replication; Tomcat; Web service

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HTTP; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AXIS; GROUP COMMUNICATION; HTTP RELIABILITY; REPLICATION; TOMCAT; WEB SERVICE;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646830123     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.957     Document Type: Article

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