Error Handling: From Theory to Practice

We describe the different issues that a language designer has to tackle when defining error handling mechanisms for service-oriented computing. We first discuss the issues that have to be considered when developing error handling mechanisms inside a process calculus, i.e. an abstract model. We then analyze how these issues change when moving from a process calculus to a full-fledged language based on it. We consider as an example the language Jolie, and the calculus SOCK it is based upon.