ANNOTATING PORTIONS OF A MESSAGE WITH STATE PROPERTIES

• US 20070180132A1
• Filed: 08/31/2006
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Waingold, Elliot L., Wolf, Kenneth D., Purdy, Douglas M., Christensen, Erik B.
• Granted Patent: US 8,424,020 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/461 Bridge
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/463 Naming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/465 Distributed object oriented systems remote method invocation [RMI] G06F9/548
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/548 Object oriented; Remote method invocation [RMI] non-remote method invocation G06F9/449
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/06 Notations for structuring of protocol data, e.g. abstract syntax notation one [ASN.1]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/165 Combined use of TCP and UDP protocols; selection criteria therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/328 in the presentation layer [OSI layer 6]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

Embodiments described herein provide for allowing processing code of a message to attach state thereto. More specifically, as a SOAP message is processed, various states known as properties (e.g., message security, message identifier, etc.) can be attached to the message for various purposes. In other words, embodiments provide for a properties object that represents a set of processing-level annotations to a message. These properties (representing the processing state of the headers or other portions of the message) can then be used by other component or modules for further processing purposes. Typically, these properties can then be removed (or sustained if desired) prior to transporting the SOAP message on the wire.

Claims

1. In a distributed messaging system, a method of efficiently processing a SOAP message by attaching properties to a message object representing processing state of headers for the message in order to allow other operations to utilize such information, the method comprising:

receiving a SOAP message that includes a plurality of headers with content used to process the SOAP message;

processing at least a portion of content for a first header from the plurality of headers; and

based on the processing, annotating a message object with a property representing the processing state for the content of the first header such that other operations can use the property for further processing of the SOAP message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the property is marked to indicate that either it should or should not persist upon serialization of the SOAP message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the property is not marked to indicate whether or not it should or should not persist upon serialization of the SOAP message, and wherein a default of not allowing the property to persist is invoked.

4. A computer program comprising one or more computer readable media having stored thereon computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, can cause the distributed messaging system to perform the method of claim 1.

5. In a distributed messaging system, a message object that includes properties representing processing state of headers for a SOAP message in order to allow other operations to utilize such information, the message object comprising:

a plurality of headers with content used to process the SOAP message; and

one or more properties representing the processing state for the content of the plurality of headers annotated thereto such that other operations can use the one or more properties for further processing of the SOAP message.

6. The message object of claim 5, wherein the one or more properties are marked to indicate that they should or should not persist upon serialization of the SOAP message.

7. The message object of claim 5, wherein the one or more properties are not marked to indicate whether or not they should or should not persist upon serialization of the SOAP message, and wherein a default of not allowing the one or more properties to persist is invoked.

8. In a distributed messaging system, a method of efficiently processing a SOAP message by attaching properties to a message object representing processing state for the SOAP message in order to allow other operations to utilize such information, the method comprising:

receiving a SOAP message;

processing at least a portion of the SOAP message; and

based on the processing, annotating a message object with a property representing the processing state such that other operations can use the property for further processing of the SOAP message.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the SOAP message includes at least one header with content, and wherein the property represents processing state of the content for the at least one header.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the SOAP message includes at least one body portion with content, and wherein the property represents processing state of the content for the at least one body portion.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the property represents processing state related to environmental information about how a message was received off a communication connection.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the property is marked to indicate that either it should or should not persist upon serialization of the SOAP message.

13. A computer program comprising one or more computer readable media having stored thereon computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, can cause the distributed messaging system to perform the method of claim 8.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the property is not marked to indicate whether or not it should or should not persist upon serialization of the SOAP message, and wherein a default of not allowing the property to persist is invoked.