The Asynchronous Services Access Protocol (ASAP) Technical Committee will extend the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) SOAP to accommodate latency between a request for a resource or services and its return.
Work will enable control and monitoring of asynchronous or long-running web services.
Asynchronous communication is a crucial element of web services. It allows a service to operate without an immediate response from its component software elements or any sub-services.
Relying on an immediate response could cause a web service to crash, forcing human intervention to restart the service or leading to loss of important messages and transactions, defeating the concept of automation that underlies web services.
ASAP’s work is applicable to workflow, business process management, e-commerce, data mining, and mobile wireless devices.
This article was based on material originally published by ComputerWire.
