8.6. Building More Robust Web Services
The J2EE 1.4 platform and its Web service technologies conform to the WS-I Basic Profile standards. Conforming to these standards means that the platform uses HTTP as the underlying transport for Web service calls. Unfortunately, from a business communication point of view, the HTTP protocol provides only a low-level degree of robustness. To illustrate, HTTP has no automatic retries to reestablish a connection that disconnects. If the receiving end fails, the entire HTTP call fails and there is no attempt to connect later. This low-level degree of robustness is not necessarily bad, since it means that HTTP can accommodate the participation of all kinds of systems and networks in a distributed Internet environment. ...
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