Handling consistent web service recovery in a RESTful way

Abstract

Over the past decade, REST has become the desired standard used for the design and development of highly scable web services. Reliability requirements of such service are more and more stringent. This paper represents our initial efforts towards the problem of increasing fault tolerance of RESTful services. We propose RESTful recovery consistency model ensuring that recovered processing state respects REST constrains. Next, we propose the recovery protocol that meet the proposed recovery consistency model requirements, and apply it in the existing ReServE service.