METHOD OF PROVIDING A SERVICE TO USERS OF A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK, SERVICE CONTROL FACILITY, AND PROCESSING NODE

The invention concerns a method for providing a service for users of a telecommunication network. Service calls requesting the execution of the service for an respective one of the users are routed to a service switching exchange of the telecommunication network or are respectively routed to one of several service switching exchanges of the telecommunication network. A corespondent service request is sent by the respective service switching exchange, that has received the respective service call, to a service control facility or to one of several possible service control facilities. For each such service request received from the or each service switching exchange a service session object, which is able to interact and communicate via an object infrastructure with other objects in a object oriented computing environment, is created within the or each service control facility and the respective service session object controls the execution of the service for the respective service call.