RE: Async Web Services

Naresh,

I suggest that you take a look at the BEA workshop "conversation"
headers. It is a clean implementation of correlation and callback
patterns.

Edwin

-----Original Message-----
From: www-ws-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of
Naresh Agarwal
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 7:15 AM
To: Krishna Sankar; www-ws@w3.org
Subject: RE: Async Web Services



Hi Krishna,
 
> 	If I am correct the only two modes of operation are fire and
forget 
> or req-response. Asynchronous web services or more precisely, stateful

> web services require some sort of correlation between invocations. 
> ebXML has the conv id which could be used for this. Most probably the 
> future web services interactions would be based on SOAP 1.2
> MEPs.


I agree that future Web Services interactions would be based on SOAP1.2
MEPs. But is there *enough* support in WSDL1.1/WSDL1.2 to describe these
MEPs?


thanks,
regards,
Naresh Agarwal