Simple Workflow Access Protocol (SWAP)
draft-swenson-swap-prot-00
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| Author | Keith D. Swenson | ||
| Last updated | 1998-08-04 | ||
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| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| RFC Editor Note | (None) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
A standard protocol is needed to integrate work providers, asynchronous services, across the intranet/internet and provide for their interaction. The integration and interactions consist of control and monitoring of the work. Control means creating the work, setting up the work, starting the work, stopping the work, being informed of exceptions, being informed of the completion of the work and getting the results of the work Monitoring means checking on the current status of the work and getting a history of the execution of the work. The protocol should be light weight and easy to implement, so that a variety of devices and situations can be covered. The Simple Workflow Access Protocol is a proposed way to solve this problem through use of HTTP protocol, and by transferring structured information encoded in XML. A new set of HTTP methods is defined, as well as the information to be supplied and the information returned in XML, that accomplish the control of generic asynchronous services. This has applicability to workflow because a workflow is itself an asynchronous service, and it also has the need to be able to call asynchronous services aoutside of itself.
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