RE: Debating on the usefulness of supporting .... - Clarifying "Stateful Web Service Instance" from Mike Champion on 2003-06-20 (www-ws@w3.org from June 2003)

From: Mike Champion <mc@xegesis.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:00:02 -0700 (PDT)
To: www-ws@w3.org
Message-ID: <20030620120002.87195.qmail@web13703.mail.yahoo.com>

--- Savas Parastatidis
<Savas.Parastatidis@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> It is possible to associate state with context
> exchange. Upon retrieving
> the context information, a Web service is capable of
> reasoning about the
> state in relation to that context. Lifetime
> management related
> attributes can be associated with the context (e.g.,
> expiration time).

The W3C Choreography WG part of yesterday looking at
Event Calculus as a possible underling formalism.  It
looks pretty promising as a way of doing exactly what
you're talking about here.  But clearly this is at a
layer above or orthogonal to SOAP and WSDL.

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