An Analysis of the Costs for Reliable Messaging in Web/Grid Service Environments

As Web Services have matured the interactions that the services have between themselves have gotten increasingly complex and sophisticated. Web services can be composed easily from other services, and these services can be made to orchestrate with each other in dynamic fashion. As web services have become dominant in the Internet and Grid systems landscape, a need to ensure guaranteed delivery of interactions (encapsulated in messages) between services has become increasingly important. In this paper we describe our work with the WSRM specification. Here we describe our support of WSRM and also include an empirical evaluation of the various facets of this specification. We believe this would be very useful for system designers who intend to incorporate support for reliable messaging within their Grid applications.