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Exception Handling and Resolution for Transactional Object Groups

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With the advent of new distributed applications like online auctions and e-commerce, the reliability requirements are becoming tighter and tighter. These applications require a combination of data consistency, robustness, high availability and performance. However, there is no single mechanism providing these features. Data consistency is preserved using transactions. Robustness can be obtained by foreseeing and handling exceptions. Objects groups can help in increasing the availability and performance of an application. In order to attain the growing demand of higher levels of reliability it is necessary to integrate these mechanisms with a consistent semantics. This article addresses this topic and studies the role of exceptions in this context.

This work was partially supported by the Spanish Research Council, CICYT, under grant TIC94-C02-01 and the Madrid Regional Research Council (CAM), contract number CAM-07T/0012/1998.

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  1. School of Computer Science, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Marta Patiño-Martìnez & Ricardo Jiménez-Peris

  2. Escuela de Ciencias Experimentales, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28933 Móostoles, Madrid, Spain

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1, 7RU, UK

    Alexander Romanovsky

  2. LIRMM Laboratory, University of Montpellier-II, 161 rue Ada, 34392, Montpellier, Cedex 5, France

    Christophe Dony

  3. Department of Computing Science, University of Aarhus, Aabogade 34, 8200, Aarhus N, Denmark

    Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen

  4. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Anand Tripathi

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Patiño-Martìnez, M., Jiménez-Peris, R., Arévalo, S. (2001). Exception Handling and Resolution for Transactional Object Groups. In: Romanovsky, A., Dony, C., Knudsen, J.L., Tripathi, A. (eds) Advances in Exception Handling Techniques. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45407-1_10

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