Study on Web Services Container Architecture

Web services technologies promote to transform traditional Web Application Server mode into Web Services Platform mode. However, as the demand on highly reliable and highly available Web services increases a first-class environment for deploying, running, and managing Web services, called Web Services Container (WSC), is needed. Based on the formal representation and current state-of-the-art of WSC, the paper puts forward a WSC architecture, where such problems as security, reliability and the management of stateful Web Services are addressed. Using its prototype, it demonstrates that some aspects such as performance are better than other corresponding systems.