Patent ID: 8739183

Claim:
A system for performing a method of efficiently processing a SOAP message by attaching properties to a message object representing processing state of headers for the message in order to allow other operations to utilize such information, the system comprising one or more computer processors and computer memory having encoded thereon computer executable instructions which, when executed upon the one or more processors performs the method comprising: receiving a SOAP message that includes a plurality of headers with content used to process the SOAP message; processing at least a portion of content of a first header from the plurality of headers; and based on the processing, annotating a message object with a property representing the processing state for the content of the first header such that other operations can use the property for further processing of the SOAP message, wherein the property representing the processing state for the content of the first header is contained within a properties object that represents a set of processing-level annotations to the message, the properties object added to the SOAP message outside the first header and the properties object comprising a set of name to object mappings, each name to object mapping representing a property representing a processing state for a particular content part of the SOAP message.