Network service agent

Abstract

A web service broker method comprises providing an interface between an enterprise and at least one of a service client and a service provider, the service client discovering web services on a service registry and using corresponding web services from the service provider, communicating between the enterprise and the at least one of the service client and the service provider and performing at least one of a) converting information from / to the enterprise to a form appropriate for the at least one of the service client and the service provider and b) converting information from / to the at least one of the service client and the service provider to a form appropriate for the enterprise.

Description

technical field [0001] This application relates to web services, especially web service brokers. Background technique [0002] One element of next-generation e-commerce systems is collaboration. At present, there are many e-commerce automation applications that solve collaboration problems in a narrow range: business-to-customer (B2C) or customer-to-customer (C2C) interaction, business-to-business (B2B) integration, business logic componentization, business process coordination arrangement , Inheritance system integration and so on. All of these applications have something in common, that is, they collaborate electronically to create an infrastructure that enables a specific business. However, its limitation is the lack of a common (everyone agrees to use) global architecture under which all these distributed applications (services) can interoperate and discover each other. This limitation results in a lot of investment and effort being put into creating suitable purpose-...

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Problems solved by technology

However, its limitation is the lack of a common (everyone agrees to use) global architecture under which all these distributed applications (services) can interoperate and discover each other

This limitation results in a lot of investment and effort being put into creating suitable purpose-oriented collaboration solutions, which are often tightly coupled, platform / technology / vendor / implementation / language dependent, and difficult to replicate in a uniform manner use, not easily available on the Internet, etc.

Creating new collaboration points usually increases the complexity of the overall system, reduces reliability, and requires more resources to maintain and expand such a system

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