About Smart Client Disconnected Service Agent Application Block

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

• It provides management features for running Web services from occasionally connected smart client applications.

• With a disconnected service agent, the application can maintain a queue of Web service requests when offline (disconnected) and then replay them when a connection to the server application becomes available.

• Provides following features :

– Queues web service requests and keeps track of the asynchronous callbacks that the application expects to receive when the Web service responds.

– Includes a dispatcher that determines exactly when to dispatch each call to a Web service, depending on connectivity conditions.

– When the correct conditions occur, the dispatcher makes the request, using the appropriate credentials and addresses for the endpoint.