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Summary: A Framework for the Server-Side Management of
Conversations with Web Services
Liliana Ardissono, Davide Cardinio, Giovanna Petrone and Marino Segnan
Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit`a di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185
10149 Torino, Italy
liliana, giovanna, marino @di.unito.it
ABSTRACT
The emerging standards for the publication of Web Services are fo-
cused on the specification of the static interfaces of the operations
to be invoked, or on the service composition. Few efforts have been
made to specify the interaction between a Web Service and the indi-
vidual consumer, although this aspect is essential to the successful
service execution. In fact, while "one-shot" services may be in-
voked in a straightforward way, the invocation of services requiring
complex interactions, where multiple messages are needed to com-
plete the service, depends on the fact that the consumer respects the
business logic of the Web Service.
In this paper, we propose a framework for the server-side man-
agement of the interaction between a Web Service and its con-
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