Re: W3C standard for (stateful) SOAP conversations?

The WS-Context draft might be relevant, although I do not know its  
current status.

<http://xml.coverpages.org/WS-ContextCD-9904.pdf>

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Nokia


On Jul 5, 2006, at 5:18 AM, ext Johan Tibell wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a SOAP extension that could fulfill the following  
> use case:
>
> Airlines want to allow customers to book flights online. This is a
> multi-step process and some information needs to be stored on the  
> server
> during the process. Basically I want a conversation id (or something
> similar) associated with several messages so that the server can  
> associate
> this id with some information kept locally.
>
> Is this already addressed by some current protocol specification?
>
> Note: I'm rather limited in my selection of protocols (because of
> political reasons), more specifically I can't go with a solution  
> that is
> completely stateless and thus imbeds state information, ala  
> cookies, in
> the messages themselves. Of course if you know of such a solution you
> could still point it out as it would be interesting to me even if I  
> can’t
> use it.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Johan Tibell
>
>
>