Re: W3C standard for (stateful) SOAP conversations?

Try using WS-CDL above the SOAP/WSDL stack.

That should do the trick. Take a look at the W3C Choreography WG home 
page and look for
implementations.

Cheers

Steve T

On 5 Jul 2006, at 10:18, 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
>
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