Methods, systems, apparatus and program products for accumulating a
historical context of interactions between components in an environment
where each of the components has a component context that can be
revealed. The components include a requester component and a service
component. The requester component requests an operation to be performed
by the service component. The requester component passes its context to
the service component with the operational request. The requester
component context is recorded as service component contextual metadata
and becomes part of the historical context.