Stateful Web Services Let’s say you log into a resource, and in doing so, you pass your password and username. If the web server stores this data in a backend manner and uses it to identify you as a constantly connected client , the service is stateful.
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As defined by FOLDOC, state is how something is; its configuration, attributes, condition or information content . We will use the term component to include software and hardware “things”. Virtually all components have state, from applications to operating systems to network layers.
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