WS-Context is a web services specification developed by

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. It is part of the

WS-CAF Web Services Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF) is an open framework developed by OASIS. Its purpose is to define a generic and open framework for applications that contain multiple services used together, which are sometimes referred to as ...

suite. Its purpose is to provide a means to reference a shared context, which relates a set of interactions between web services (termed an activity). This context provides details of the application-specific execution environment for these services, and is typically included in the header of

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message. Contexts may be passed by value, or by reference, in which case they are retrieved using a Context Manager service. A Context Service is described, which allows management of activities by means of the begin and complete operations, which create and destroy the context respectively.

References

# Little, M., Newcomer, E., Pavlik, G. (Eds) ''Web Services Context Specification Version 1.0'' OASIS, 2007 http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-caf/ws-context/v1.0/wsctx.html retrieved 2008-01-03 Web service specifications {{Web-software-stub