RunID - cross service tracking

[Guy Rixon]

Yes, but the WS-GAF context is associated with metadata. Wil's context is just
a name to put in a log.

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Alasdair Allan wrote:

>
> Wil O'Mullane wrote:
> > In a meeting we had yesterday to discuss logging Tim Kimball had an
> > interesting idea. We should have a RunID associated with a particular
> > service run.
>
> Surely this is contextual web services?
>
> > So a portal creates a run id in the form servename:sequentialNum. This
> > id should be passed to all services called such that it is logged for
> > each service call. Any service calling another service should pass this
> > number on. Hence if DataScope calls 300 services from one user request
> > they should all have the same RunID. For a web Service the run id could
> > be in the header i.e. no change to the interface. For the Simple GET
> > services it can simply be appended as &RunID=server:990990 which will
> > automatically put it in the log.
>
> Yes, defiantely contextual web services, you should have a look at the
> WS-GAF stuff if you're interested in doing stuff like this...
>
> This is more or less how eSTAR operates, I push a context ID around for
> all my requests.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
> --
> Dr. A. Allan, School of Physics, University of Exeter
>

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