.NET Web Services: Architecture and Implementation

Customers of web services often request several advanced messaging features. The most requested feature, of course, is message-based security (refer to ; however, reliable messaging,...

The concept of sessions is difficult to define. Some people use the word to define any conversation among a set of messaging endpoints. But I...

One hundred percent availability is never attainable. That said, there is a lot you can do to get a very high degree of reliability in...

Two kinds of conversations can occur with Web services: dialogues and monologues. Dialogues are the conversations between exactly two parties with messages flowing to and...

In any advanced messaging system, you will likely find the ability to create sessions and reliable dialogues. To review: Sessions are sets of related messages. Sessions contain...