Internationalization of the web services infrastructure

• US 20030131049A1
• Filed: 01/08/2002
• Published: 07/10/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Banerjee, Debasish, Zavala, David Alan, Swenson, Casey Adam
• Granted Patent: US 7,251,674 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A method and system for processing a Web service request in a distributed computing environment. In one embodiment, the Web service request is processed in a Web service requester. A packet having a header containing an internationalization context of the Web service requester is generated. The packet is then attached to the Web service request. The packet is then sent with the Web service request to the distributed computing environment.

Claims

1. A method of sending a Web service request by a Web service requester to a Web service provider, comprising:

generating a packet having an internationalization context of the Web service requester;

attaching the packet to a Web service request; and

sending the packet with the Web service request to the Web service provider.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, prior to generating the packet having an internationalization context of the Web service requester, extracting an internationalization context from a table that associates the internationalization context with a thread upon which the Web service request is executed.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the packet having an internationalization context of the Web service requester comprises converting the internationalization context to an XML format.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the packet comprises a SOAP header containing the internationalization context.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein a mustUnderstand attribute is absent from the SOAP header.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the packet comprises one of a stringified representation of a country identifier, a stringified representation of a language identifier, a stringified representation of a time zone identifier and a stringified representation of a variant identifier.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the variant identifier provides further specification to one of the country identifier and the language identifier.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the variant identifier comprises a country region identifier.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the variant identifier comprises a language dialect identifier.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the internationalization context is an invocation internationalization context.

11. A method of processing a Web service request by a Web service provider in a distributed computing environment, the method comprising:

receiving the Web service request having a packet;

extracting an internationalization context from the packet;

storing the internationalization context to a table that associates the internationalization context with the thread upon which the Web service request is executed; and

processing the Web service request according to the internationalization context.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the packet comprises a SOAP header containing the internationalization context.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the mustUnderstand attribute is absent from the SOAP header.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the packet comprises one of a stringified representation of a country identifier, a stringified representation of a language identifier, a stringified representation of a time zone identifier and a stringified representation of a variant identifier.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the variant identifier provides further specification to one of the country identifier and the language identifier.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the variant identifier comprises a country region identifier.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the variant identifier comprises a language dialect identifier.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the internationalization context is a caller internationalization context.

19. A computer-readable medium containing a program which, when executed by a processor, performs an operation of sending a Web service request by a Web service requester to a Web service provider, the operation comprising:

generating a packet having an internationalization context of the Web service requester;

attaching the packet to a Web service request; and

sending the packet with the Web service request to the Web service provider.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the operation further comprises, prior to generating the packet having the internationalization context of the Web service requester, extracting the internationalization context from a table that associates the internationalization context with a thread upon which the Web service request is executed.

21. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein generating the packet having the internationalization context of the Web service requester comprises converting the internationalization context to an XML format.

22. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the packet comprises a SOAP header containing the internationalization context.

23. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the packet comprises one of a stringified representation of a country identifier, a stringified representation of a language identifier, a stringified representation of a time zone identifier and a stringified representation of a variant identifier.

24. A computer program for sending a Web service request by a Web service requester in a distributed computing environment embodied in a computer program, the program comprising:

a code segment for creating the Web service request;

a code segment for generating a packet having an internationalization context of the Web service requester;

a code segment for attaching the packet to the Web service request; and

a code segment for sending the packet with the Web service request to the distributed computing environment.

25. The computer program of claim 24, wherein the code segment for generating a packet having an internationalization context of the Web service requester comprises a code segment for extracting an internationalization context from a table that associates the internationalization context with a thread upon which the Web service request is executed.

26. A computer program for processing a Web service request by a Web service provider in a distributed computing environment embodied in a computer program, the computer program comprising:

a code segment for receiving the Web service request having a packet;

a code segment for extracting an internationalization context from the packet;

a code segment for storing the internationalization context to a table that associates the internationalization context with the thread upon which the Web service request is executed; and

a code segment for processing the Web service request according to the internationalization context.

27. A Web service requester, comprising:

a memory containing a Web service request-sending program;

a processor which, when executing the Web service request-sending program, performs an operation comprising;

creating the Web service request;

generating a packet having an internationalization context of the Web service requester;

attaching the packet to the Web service request; and

sending the packet with the Web service request to the distributed computing environment.

28. The Web service requester of claim 27, further comprises a system programming interface for extracting the internationalization context from a table that associates the internationalization context with a thread upon which the Web service request is executed.

29. A Web service provider, comprising:

a memory containing a Web service request-processing program;

a processor which, when executing the Web service request-processing program, performs an operation comprising;

receiving the Web service request having a packet;

extracting an internationalization context from the packet;

storing the internationalization context to a table that associates the internationalization context with the thread upon which the Web service request is executed; and

processing the Web service request according to the internationalization context.

30. The Web service provider of claim 29, further comprises a system programming interface for storing the internationalization context to a table that associates the internationalization context with the thread upon which the Web service request is executed.