123 results about "Soap message" patented technology

Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for provisioning software resources used with aggregated web services. The disclosed techniques enable heterogeneous identity systems to be joined in the dynamic, run-time web services integration environment. Authentication and authorization may now be performed for the aggregated service, as well as for its sub-services. SOAP ("Simple Object Access Protocol") messages, as an example, may be used to relay identity information among distributed services, whereby credentials may be specified in the SOAP message header to accompany a service request specified in the SOAP message body.

The present invention is a module testing tool for Web services. In one embodiment, the present invention automates the testing of Web services that use SOAP as a wire protocol and HTTP as a transport protocol. The invention provides an easy interface for exercising Web services and testing their functionality. The invention helps users confirm the responses to SOAP messages with such features as fault detection, textual comparisons, XML validation by DTDs or XML Schemas, and the ability to express and flag complex patterns in XML. The invention lets the users validate responses that require application-specific verification (such as business logic validation) by plugging in their own code. It also provides the capability to perform regression testing of web services. The invention can automatically creates regression test controls from SOAP Client responses, or users can create their own regression tests.

The present invention is a module testing tool for Web services. In one embodiment, the present invention automates the testing of Web services that use SOAP as a wire protocol and HTTP as a transport protocol. The invention provides an easy interface for exercising Web services and testing their functionality. The invention helps users confirm the responses to SOAP messages with such features as fault detection, textual comparisons, XML validation by DTDs or XML Schemas, and the ability to express and flag complex patterns in XML. The invention lets the users validate responses that require application-specific verification (such as business logic validation) by plugging in their own code. It also provides the capability to perform regression testing of web services. The invention can automatically creates regression test controls from SOAP Client responses, or users can create their own regression tests.

A system, apparatus, and method is described for using reduced Web service messages. A reduced Web service message is formed at a first data processing arrangement based on at least a variant portion of a Web service message, such as a SOAP message. The Web service message contains data targeted for processing by a second data processing arrangement. The reduced message may contain only the variant data, or it may contain additional data representing some or all of the invariant data of the Web service message. The reduced message is sent via a network targeted for the second data processing arrangement. The reduced message may be used to form a reproduction of the Web service message, and the reproduction can be processed by the second data processing arrangement.

Disclosed is a method for creating and verifying SOAP messages in web service security using signature encryption. The SOAP message sender encrypts a signature used for SOAP message security with a secret key for encrypting data to be contained in the SOAP body. The encrypted signature is inserted in the security header of the SOAP header and sent to the recipient. The SOAP message recipient decrypts the encrypted key with his / her private key and restores the secret key. The restored secret key is used to decrypt the encrypted signature in the security header of the SOAP header, and the decrypted signature is used to verify the SOAP message.

The present invention creates a SOAP message without using DOM by generating a body part by sequentially performing such a process of a message as encryption or signing for each piece of the message, generating a header part by using information acquired during the process, and by combining the body part and the header part. The present invention also breaks a SOAP message without using DOM by acquiring header information with parsing a received SOAP message and sequentially performing decode or verification of a signature of a body part according to the header information.

Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for provisioning software resources used with aggregated web services. The disclosed techniques enable heterogeneous identity systems to be joined in the dynamic, run-time web services integration environment. Authentication and authorization may now be performed for the aggregated service, as well as for its sub-services. SOAP (“Simple Object Access Protocol”) messages, as an example, may be used to relay identity information among distributed services, whereby credentials may be specified in the SOAP message header to accompany a service request specified in the SOAP message body.

A database server that manages a database retrieves metadata that is stored, within the database, in association with a procedure that is stored in the database. Based on the metadata, a Web service definition is automatically constructed to describe the procedure as a Web service. The WSDL definition can be referenced to construct SOAP messages with the appropriate arguments and in the appropriate format which, when received, are converted to a suitable format for invoking execution of the procedure by the database server.

Systems and methods for providing distributed debugging in an extensible SOAP environment of asynchronous software web services are disclosed. Such a system may include a message originator, a diagnostics tagger, an intended message receiver, and a debug controller, which may communicate with one another via SOAP messages. The message originator originally puts the SOAP message onto the network. The diagnostics tagger modifies the SOAP message to include certain diagnostics elements that cause a breakpoint to be triggered. The intended message receiver eventually receives the message and is expected to trigger the breakpoint. The debug controller is a process that is called by the intended message receiver when a breakpoint is detected. The header of the SOAP message may include a security element and a diagnostics element. The diagnostics element may include one or more breakpoint elements. Each breakpoint element may include a debugging controller element, and one or more condition elements. Each condition element may include a logical expression. The intended message receiver determines whether the conditions are met. If the conditions are met, then the breakpoint is triggered.

A mechanism lets a service consumer add mediation metadata in a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message and lets a service provider perform server side mediation based on the pre-defined mediation metadata. A client side mediation engine is plugged into a client SOAP engine. When the client side mediation engine receives a request message from the client SOAP engine, metadata is attached to a message header of a SOAP message and returned to the client SOAP engine. A server side mediation engine is plugged the server side mediation engine receives a SOAP message from the server SOAP engine, metadata is mapped with an appropriate adaptor and returned to the server SOAP engine.

Reduces time for processing a request Simple Object Access Protocol, SOAP, message in a request means such as mobile equipment or the like. Sequence definition means divides one parent SOAP message as one request concerning a Web Service into segments of a Simple Object Access Protocol header and a SOAP body. Segment creation means creates the segment of the Simple Object Access Protocol body of the parent SOAP message and the segment of the SOAP header of the parent Simple Object Access Protocol message in this order. Sending means executes sending processing in parallel with creation processing by the segment creation means. Specifically, the sending means assigns one child Simple Object Access Protocol message enveloping the content of a segment to each of the segments, and sends each of the child Simple Object Access Protocol messages to the provider in accordance with a creation sequence of the segments.

Method and apparatus for performing disk diagnostics and repairs on remote clients. The method employs an embedded LAN microcontroller at a client to submit diagnostic commands to disk drives hosted by the client. Corresponding diagnostic data is returned from the disk to the LAN microcontroller, and an XML file containing the diagnostic data is generated. The XML file is then packaged as a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message, which is bound to the Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP), processed via an Internet Protocol (IP) microstack, and sent to a management server via an out-of-band (OOB) communication channel that is transparent to an operating system running on the client. Upon receipt of the SOAP message, the diagnostic data are extracted from the XML file using an XML schema application. A user may request diagnostics be performed for selected disk drives connected to selected client hosts, wherein the request is packaged as an XML file in a SOAP request message. Upon receiving the SOAP request message, the diagnostic commands are extracted from the XML file and submitted to the disk drive.

Access to data in a file created by a first application is provided to other applications without the need for use of the first application. A request is received from the other application for a document in the file. The document is retrieved in XML from using a specially developed database. Sections in the document may be expanded by retrieving content in HTML form from the file and inserting into the retrieval document. Data for attachments, image tags, and iframe links is obtained and inserted into the document. A complex XML object is created containing the entire expanded document. The object is converted into a SOAP message according to a complex set of rules and sent back to the requesting application over a communication link using any transmission protocol such as HTTP or HTTPS.

The present invention creates a SOAP message without using DOM by generating a body part by sequentially performing such a process of a message as encryption or signing for each piece of the message, generating a header part by using information acquired during the process, and by combining the body part and the header part. The present invention also breaks a SOAP message without using DOM by acquiring header information with parsing a received SOAP message and sequentially performing decode or verification of a signature of a body part according to the header information.

Process of communication via HTTP or HTTPS between a device running Java ME® and a server over the air, said server receiving and transmitting SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages from / to an operator on a host over a network and being capable of exchanging SOAP messages under Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) data form / with the device, characterized in that the SOAP messages are translated from / to binary messages according to a protocol in the server, said binary messages being exchanged with the device, the binary messages being binary request messages or binary response messages.

Method and apparatus for performing disk diagnostics and repairs on remote clients. The method employs an embedded LAN microcontroller at a client to submit diagnostic commands to disk drives hosted by the client. Corresponding diagnostic data is returned from the disk to the LAN microcontroller, and an XML file containing the diagnostic data is generated. The XML file is then packaged as a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message, which is bound to the Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP), processed via an Internet Protocol (IP) microstack, and sent to a management server via an out-of-band (OOB) communication channel that is transparent to an operating system running on the client. Upon receipt of the SOAP message, the diagnostic data are extracted from the XML file using an XML schema application. A user may request diagnostics be performed for selected disk drives connected to selected client hosts, wherein the request is packaged as an XML file in a SOAP request message. Upon receiving the SOAP request message, the diagnostic commands are extracted from the XML file and submitted to the disk drive.

A method and system for interprocess communication (IPC) (300), which includes converting a message from the source computer process (310) into an extensible markup language (XML) document, and encoding the XML document into a simple object access protocol (SOAP) message. The SOAP message is transmitted to the destination computer process (312) via an interprocess communication (IPC) interface (326); The SOAP message is decoded to extract the XML document, and the XML document is translated to a language usable by the destination computer process. The system of IPC includes source (310) and destination (312) processes that have both XML layers (318 and 320) and SOAP layers (314 and 316) to effectuate transfer of messages in a way that is not application- or platform-specific. The computer processes may run on at least one redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controller (130).

Systems and methods for providing distributed debugging in an extensible SOAP environment of asynchronous software web services are disclosed. Such a system may include a message originator, a diagnostics tagger, an intended message receiver, and a debug controller, which may communicate with one another via SOAP messages. The message originator originally puts the SOAP message onto the network. The diagnostics tagger modifies the SOAP message to include certain diagnostics elements that cause a breakpoint to be triggered. The intended message receiver eventually receives the message and is expected to trigger the breakpoint. The debug controller is a process that is called by the intended message receiver when a breakpoint is detected. The header of the SOAP message may include a security element and a diagnostics element. The diagnostics element may include one or more breakpoint elements. Each breakpoint element may include a debugging controller element, and one or more condition elements. Each condition element may include a logical expression. The intended message receiver determines whether the conditions are met. If the conditions are met, then the breakpoint is triggered.

Embodiments provide for query expressions to be utilized within a SOAP message for content fragment transfer and document update purposes. In one embodiment an inverse query path within a SOAP message in used conjunction with an operation for modifying a targeted XML document. Mechanisms are also provided that allow transferring of fragments of content for an XML document within a SOAP message. Such fragments are usually by themselves not schematically valid. Nevertheless, by encapsulating the fragmented content within a special wrapper construct, the subset of content suddenly become legal XML; thus passing most any validation test imposed by SOAP processors. More specifically, the wrapper construct is itself schematized as requiring that SOAP processors skip or otherwise suppress processing any child elements within the contained wrapper.

Provided is are method of relaying communication between a remote user interface (RUI) client and a universal plug and play (UPnP) device in a home network. The method includes: searching for a UPnP action mapped to an RUI element corresponding to an RUI control message received from an RUI client,; generating a simple object access protocol (SOAP) message for calling a found UPnP action; and transmitting the SOAP message to the UPnP device.

An apparatus and a method for transforming Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages is provided. The method comprises receiving and transmitting Extensible Markup Language (XML) format SOAP messages by using an application protocol and TCP / IP, a message comprising message elements and receiving and transmitting binary messages comprising binary message elements. A transformation is performed between an XML format message and a binary message by replacing (316-320) each message element of a given format with a message element in the other format. When transforming an XML message to binary format, the application protocol packet type and TCP / IP acknowledgement data are included (312) in the binary header. When transforming a binary format message to XML format, the application protocol packet type is selected on the basis of the information in the binary header of the binary format message.

The invention relates to the technical field of home networks. A home network based on the current UPNP (Universal Plug and Play) standard allows data to be interchanged between network subscriber stations. An extension to this standard also provides for the interchange of AV data (Audio / Video data). One of the basic ideas of the UPNP specification is that it is possible to control any UPnP device using a standard HTML browser. To this end, every UPnP device has a web server on which the HTML pages for controlling the device are stored. It is permissible to embed a “JAVA applet” into the HTML page in order to control the device. This means that device control can be made very convenient. However, when it is necessary to control a device which needs to interchange data on the basis of the UPN P-AV standard, the JAVA applet first needs to know whether and, if so, which devices of the MediaRenderer or MediaServer type are present in the network. The JAVA security restrictions prevent the requests required for this purpose from being made from the JAVA applet, however. The invention implements an additional device ascertainment service in the device for control in order to make these requests possible. This device ascertainment service communicates with the loaded JAVA applet in the remote control device using standard SOAP messages. It is thus possible to use the advantageous method of embedding a JAVA applet into an HTML page even to control UPnP-AV devices.

A mechanism lets a service consumer add mediation metadata in a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message and lets a service provider perform server side mediation based on the pre-defined mediation metadata. A client side mediation engine is plugged into a client SOAP engine. When the client side mediation engine receives a request message from the client SOAP engine metadata is attached to a message header of a SOAP message and returned to the client SOAP engine. A server side mediation engine is plugged the server side mediation engine receives a SOAP message from the server SOAP engine, metadata is mapped with an appropriate adaptor and returned to the server SOAP engine.

Various embodiments of a computer-implemented method, system and article of manufacture enable an application to be accessed as a web service. In response to a command, a web service is deployed to a gateway server, and a connection bundle and a correlator file are provided such that they are accessible to the gateway server. The web service was generated based on a web service description language file that is based on an input-output message description of the application, and is accessible to a client using a SOAP message. The gateway server sends a request message to the application based on the SOAP message in accordance with the web service, and receives a reply message from the application. The connection bundle comprises connection information to interface with the application. The correlator file comprises a name of an interface module associated with the application and the name of the connection bundle.

Data transfer and staging services are common components in Grid-based or more generally in service-oriented applications. Security mechanisms are playing a central role in such services, especially when they are deployed in application fields like for instance e-health. The adoption of WS-Security and related standards to SOAP-based transfer services is, however, not straightforward. With MTOM, SOAP messages can be processed with WS-Security in a straightforward manner. The present invention provides an improved method for signing an MTOM-optimized SOAP message. A non-blocking signature generation approach is proposed enabling a stream-like processing with considerable performance enhancements.

The invention discloses a Frame-based automatic generating method for Web service test data. The method mainly solves the challenge of trend flexibility and combination reusability which are faced with a Web service test. The method mainly comprises frame express of a test case, automatic generation of the test case, and operation of Web service test. The method comprises the steps of analyzing a WSDL (Web Services Description Language) document so as to obtain related input type information from a Schemea of the document; automatically then obtaining the test case of certain service operation by using a make Test Case function, finally packaging the test case into an HTTP (Hyper Text Transport Protocol) packet to be sent to a service end; and analyzing an SOAP message in the HTTP packet by the service end and returning to a result of a called service. After being proved by a large quantity of test data, the method has the advantages that 1, according to the WSDL, the SOAP message can be sent accurately, and return information can be obtained; 2, the test data can be automatically generated simultaneously; and compared with the prior art, the method is more superior on aspects of test time and test power.

SOAP client protocol encapsulation Based on TCP , based on the short TCP connection, SOAP client protocol encapsulation method, the client package for SOAP protocol, that is Web Services Description Language WSDL file into xml file, put to the client application's configuration file which, variable part of the SOAP protocol allows all the code from the configuration file object after conversion, and then generated after the body of SOAP protocol: 1) client load WSDL converted xml file; 2) the client application to read out the configuration file, the xml with the application to transfer data into a SOAP message body; 3) in the generated SOAP message body together with SOAP message header, turned into a complete SOAP request; 4) We will be based on TCP short connection to the complete SOAP request sent to the web services server, then receive and process about the content of web services to return, to complete a full SOAP interface calls; All the web Services client: a client using the same source, and adopt a unified approach to a request to the web service server.

This invention relates to an adapter including: a service issuing module analyzing the service description file of XML form generated by a service component of a left system, which describes the service provided by the left system, the related position information to said service and interface parameter, a register module for fetching and analyzing the description file of the adapter and service description file of the left system and registering them to the information bus of a newly developed platform, a message process module processing messages according to the transmission protocol, a service call module used in analyzing and calling SOAP massage block to locate the being called service based on the service call file generated by the service issuing module and feed back the result to the message module in the way of SOAP message block to realize the interaction between the left system and the operation platform.

The invention discloses a kind of SOAP message transmission method based on the sliding window; it cuts the SOAP message which is to be transmitted, and then the data section is as accessory to be sealed to the SOAP message, it is then sealed to sliding window, the sliding window is used to increase the transmission speed of the SOAP message. Aiming at guarantee the reliability of the SOAP message, when the SOAP message sliding window is designed and realized, the data missing, response message missing, receiver receives repeat message and receiver waits time over are analyzed and processed effectively, and congestion control mechanism of application layer is applicated to guarantee the free of the transmission of SOAP message. The characters of the invention: full utilization of network bandwidth, increasing the SOAP message transmission efficiency, and guaranteeing the reliability of transmission.

A method for generating a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message in XML during execution of a process in a SOA-based process engine apparatus and a corresponding process engine apparatus. The method includes: generating and storing an XML character string containing a fixed SOAP message skeleton; generating and storing an XML character string containing an instance-constant variable; generating an XML character string containing a dynamic variable; and concatenating the XML character string containing the fixed SOAP message skeleton and the XML character string containing the instance-constant variable as previously stored and the XML character string containing the dynamic variable by a character string concatenating operation to generate a SOAP message. A process engine apparatus including a message analyzer unit, a message pre-composer unit, a character string depository, and a message composer unit is also provided.