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/.
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