Protocol lifecycle

A computing system comprising a machine, said computing system also comprising instructions stored on a computer readable medium, said instructions capable of being executed by said machine to perform a method, said method comprising:

• registering a plurality stateless protocols with an objected-oriented runtime environment, where each stateless protocol includes at least one instruction to be executed;
• invoking a stateless protocol instance of one of the plurality of stateless protocols to process a message during runtime execution, wherein the stateless protocol instance is configured to not retain its state information;
• loading data pertaining to the message into an area of memory reserved for the stateless protocol to be used by the stateless protocol instance;
• executing one or more instructions of the stateless protocol instance;
• and
• storing information specific to the message in a context associated with the message.

An article of manufacture including program code stored on a machine readable medium which, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform a method, the method comprising:

• registering a stateless protocol instance with an objected-oriented runtime environment;
• invoking a first stateless protocol context instance of the stateless protocol instance to process a first message during runtime execution, wherein the first stateless protocol context instance is configured to not retain its state information;
• loading data pertaining to the first message into an area of memory reserved for the first stateless protocol instance to be used by the first stateless protocol context instance;
• executing one or more instructions of the first stateless protocol context instance;
• and
• storing information specific to the first message in a context associated with the first message upon the completion of each of the instructions of the first stateless protocol context instance.