I know HP had a WS-Event spec. out in July that seems to support much
the same functionality...
On Jan 8, 2004, at 12:46 PM, Chiusano Joseph wrote:
>
>
> - The WS-Eventing specification "describes a protocol that allows Web
> services to subscribe to or accept subscriptions for event notification
> messages."
>
> - An example request to create a subscription for storm warnings is
> used
> to illustrate the notification protocol.
>
> - "Web services often want to receive messages when events occur in
> other services and applications. A mechanism for registering interest
> is
> needed because the set of Web services interested in receiving such
> messages is often unknown in advance or will change over time."
>
> - The specification intends to define a "means to create and delete
> event subscriptions, to define expiration for subscriptions, and to
> allow them to be renewed.
>
> - It defines how an event sink can determine which subscriptions it is
> receiving notifications for, and how one event sink can subscribe on
> behalf of another.
>
> - The specification is meant to leverage other Web service
> specifications for secure, reliable, transacted message delivery.
>
> Kind Regards,
