Web services apparatus and methods

Abstract

A method for use in a Web Services system having complex UDDI object(s) having at least one non-compound data structure and at least one compound data structures, each compound data structure having at least one value, each value having a plurality of fields. The method provides in a Directory parent object, an attribute representing each non-compound data structure and provides for each at least one value, a Directory child object having an attribute representing each field of compound data structure.

Description

[0001] The present application claims the benefit of Provisional Applications Serial No. 60 / 406,391; 60 / 406,399; 60 / 406,325; 60 / 406,328; 60 / 406,204; 60 / 406,205; and 60 / 406,319 each of which was filed on Aug. 26, 2002 and the contents of each of which are incorporated herein by reference.[0002] 1. Field[0003] The present disclosure relates to UDDI Registry and Web Services in general, and in particular to method(s), apparatus and system(s) used in giving practical effect to such services.[0004] 2. Description of Related Art[0005] UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) is a set of Standards that have been defined to enable applications that use Web Services to quickly, easily and dynamically interact with one another. UDDI is intended to create a platform-independent, open framework for describing services, discovering businesses and integrating system services using the Internet, as well as an operational registry. Refer to the web site www.uddi.org for further detai...

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Benefits of technology

"The present patent application claims the benefit of provisional applications filed on Aug. 26, 2002, and relates to a method, apparatus, and system for using UDDI Registry and Web Services in a practical way. The technical effects of the patent include efficient implementation of UDDI Standards, solving problems with the UDDI Standards, and optimizing construction of intermediate search result collections during search operations. The patent also addresses issues with representing complex UDDI objects, managing deletion of UDDI objects, and optimizing performance of searching and update."

Problems solved by technology

However, implementing the UDDI Standards (available at www.uddi.org) on a Directory requires the solving of a number of problems.

The UDDI Standards leave many important issues unaddressed, such as:

In practice, Directory entries may be stored and returned in arbitrary order, and Directory results may be too large to sort.

However, none are considered to address at least the problems noted above.

The UDDI (FIG. 13) and Novell (FIG. 14) example representations are not considered to be efficient representations for Web Services.

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