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We present a mechanism which transparently enhances service invocations by contextual data (e.g., location / positioning data gained through other information that is accessible within the invocation chain): the context is applied and extracted in a way such that the called service(s) can be completely agnostic to the intricacies of context encoding, transmission, and processing. This is particularly important when accessing services from within a mobile environment, since mobile processes are sensitive to contextual data like location, user and device status by nature. We intercept the service request / response handling prior to calling the business logic and the delivering of the response to the calling application, respectively. The proposed approach turns out to be rather applicable in Field Force Automation scenarios and efficient which is proved by some experimentation.
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Eikerling, HJ. (2010). Context-Enhanced Web Service Invocations in Mobile Business Processes. In: Cai, Y., Magedanz, T., Li, M., Xia, J., Giannelli, C. (eds) Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications. MOBILWARE 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17758-3_18
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