We have a webservice to process new incoming orders from an EDI system. The EDI system is accessible through a soap web service.

So our web service calls an external web service to retrieve the new orders.

This has worked well the last two years.

Yesterday the EDI supplier has decided to change their soap service and require the service call to their external webservice to be stateful, and keep track of it's session through a cookie.

• Am I correct in assuming that external service calls in an egl web service project are stateless.
• Is it possible to have stateful service call sessions (using websphere for our services)

Thanks for any insights!

Hi Bram,

I've only used stateful web services in java and know that this is usually accomplished with JSESSIONID.  Searching the EGL documentation, it looks like only REST services has the option to be stateful via the sessionCookieId field on the deployment descriptor.

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Daron

Thanks Daron,

I guess if they can't roll back I'll have to go with external java code to retrieve the messages...

Bram