Appeal 2007-0435 Application 10/082,794 INTRODUCTION The claims are directed to the development of stateful Web services. Claim 1 is illustrative: 1. A method of specifying a stateful web service within a procedural programming environment, the method comprising: providing a source code representation of at least a portion of web service logic, the logic including one or more methods; identifying one of said one or more methods to be exposed as part of the stateful web service; and specifying one or more declarative annotations to cause a compiler to generate one or more persistent components to maintain conversational state related to the identified method. The Examiner relies on the following prior art references to show unpatentability: Pagé US 5,812,768 Sep. 22, 1998 Chan US 6,230,160 B1 May 8, 2001 BEA Weblogic Server 4.5 (“BEA”), Using Weblogic Enterprise JavaBeans (1999), available at http://www.weblogic.com/docs/cl... Richard Monson-Haefel (“Monson-Haefel”), Enterprise Java Beans, 2nd Edition (2000), available at http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/ 1565928695. dreamBean Software (“dreamBean”), EJBDoclet (2000), available at http://sourceforge,net/projects/ejbodoclet/. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
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