CHANGE NOTIFICATION AND UPDATE SERVICE FOR OBJECT SHARING VIA PUBLICATION AND SUBSCRIPTION

摘要

An application service environment is equipped to facilitate object/data sharing between users of different organizations through publication and subscription. The facilitation includes facilitating a publication subscriber user in identifying subscribed publication object instances of interest. The facilitation further includes monitoring for changes to publication object instances, creating and delivering change notifications to the publication subscriber users accordingly. In one embodiment, the publication object instance change notification service is implemented as a web service, with server side methods and client side logic to effectuate the desired selective notification for the multiplicity of users of the different organizations.