Hi Our goal of a service layer is to have a service description which is platform- and language dependent. Therefore, the platform specific things must be wrapped otherwise you won't have a well-designed web service and are never able to reuse or migrate the web service implementation to another platform without an impact on the client side.
Why don't you define a single operation called: String runProg (String args) The implementation of this operation will then call the three methods on the legacy system in the desired order. Regards Oliver ****************************************************************** «Zurich» Financial Services Global IT, Shared ASP Europe, UKISA, Asia / Pacific Business Application Management Switzerland CHKIEAMI - Application Integration OPTA - PST A616 Talackerstrasse 1 CH-8152 Opfikon-Glattbrugg Phone: +41- 1 628 58 07 Fax: +41 - 1 623 58 07 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Nice To Know" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com> Kopie: Thema: Web Service with state 22.12.2004 11:03 Bitte antworten an axis-user Hi! I'm building a web service that need a internal state. This is needed because the web service will start a legacy program that takes input from a prompt. This is my calls: int threadId : runProg( String args ) void sendInput( threadId, String args) String getResult( threadId) Have read that web service has to be state-less. Why is that? Unfortunately I have no choice here because I cant rewrite the legacy application. Thanks in advance /Kalle _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ******************* BITTE BEACHTEN ******************* Diese Nachricht (wie auch allfällige Anhänge dazu) beinhaltet möglicherweise vertrauliche oder gesetzlich geschützte Daten oder Informationen. Zum Empfang derselben ist (sind) ausschliesslich die genannte(n) Person(en) bestimmt. Falls Sie diese Nachricht irrtümlicherweise erreicht hat, sind Sie höflich gebeten, diese unter Ausschluss jeder Reproduktion zu zerstören und die absendende Person umgehend zu benachrichtigen. Vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe.