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This International Standard specifies Web Services (in WSDL) and a SOAP binding for the Application Session Services defined in ISO/IEC 22534. The Application Session Services allow Applications to create and maintain a relationship with Servers termed Application Session. The Web services specified herein allow Service Requesters (Applications in ISO/IEC 22534) and Service Providers (Servers in ISO/IEC 22534) to create and maintain such Application Sessions.

This International Standard builds upon and imports the XML schema definitions from ISO/IEC 22534. The method of making the WSDL description of the specified services available to Service Provider and Requester is out of the scope of this International Standard.

The ApplicationSessionTerminated operation of this International Standard is an outbound asynchronous event notification that Service Requesters receive from the Service Provider. Service Requester may also receive the event notification from web services, e.g. ECMA-348, that use this International Standard for session management.

This International Standard specifies the event subscription and notification behaviors.

Annex A specifies the event subscription mechanism using WS-BaseNotification Option.

Annex B specifies the asynchronous subscription response Option for the two event subscription mechanisms.

Annex C illustrates the event subscription mechanism using WS-Eventing.

Annex D shows an example WS-Session WSDL binding with SOAP/HTTP.

Annex E lists SOAP XML Templates for ISO/IEC 22534 messages.

Annex F lists some SOAP XML Templates for WS-Eventing messages.

Annex G lists some SOAP XML Templates for WS-BaseNotification messages.

Annex H provides a summary of changes.