What dialog support is provided in JAIN-SIP?
JAIN-SIP allows for stateless or dialog stateful processing. Under dialog stateful processing. Dialog support is provided to facilitate in-dialog request generation, maintenance of route sets, maintenance of sequence numbers and other dialog functionality that is specified in Chapter 12 of the SIP RFC. Additionally, the dialog layer will shield your application from out of sequence messages and generate appropriate error responses when necessary. ( An implementation may choose to buffer early arriving messages and deliver to the application at a later time.) No dialog support is provided for authentication. This is an application responsibility. In dialog requests are delvered to the application in strict sequentially increasing order as specified in Chapter 12 of the RFC 3261.