Firewalls: Web services' Achilles' Heel? Overcome asynchronous messaging challenges by
Firewalls: Web services' Achilles' Heel?
Overcome asynchronous messaging challenges by using Web Services Polling (WS-Polling). Specifications such as WS-Coordination/Transactions and WS-Reliable Messaging can now assume there's an asynchronous message processing model -- and one that is defined in a standard way -- simply by using the WS-Addressing headers. However, as with many things, there's a downside to using asynchronous message processing and an obstacle to its adoption -- firewalls.
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