摘要 |
<p>Embodiments of the present invention introduces mechanisms that allow conversational Web services to have long running business transactions between multiple parties with persistent states. All the callback address lookup, population and setup can be performed automatically by the service provider at the infrastructure level transparent to the user and only the service/contract itself need to be defined. Web service addressing is used to exchange conversational/callback identifiers between the client(s) who requests the service and the server who provides it. The present invention also enables related parties to setup asynchronous messaging exchanges between Web services based on Web service addressing. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures, and the claims.</p> |