Method and system for generating a web service interface

• US 20040003033A1
• Filed: 06/27/2002
• Published: 01/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Ali, Syed M., Kamen, Yury, Daniels, Bruce K., Goldberg, Robert N.
• Application Number:
  US10/184,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20040003033A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A method for generating a web service interface including monitoring traffic between a web-based application and a client, generating a web service description using the monitored traffic, and generating an internal mapping using the monitored traffic allowing a web service method call to be directed to the web-based application using the internal mapping.

Claims

1. A method for generating a web service interface comprising:

monitoring traffic between a web-based application and a client;

generating a web service description using the monitored traffic; and

generating an internal mapping using the monitored traffic allowing a web service method call to be directed to the web-based application using the internal mapping.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing the web service interface to a user for modification; and

generating a modified web service interface using the user modification.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user modification specifies functions for generating an aggregated web service interface using the user modification.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the web service description is defined using a web services description language.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitored traffic comprises hypertext transfer protocol requests.

6. A method for generating a web service interface comprising:

parsing source code of a web-based application;

generating a web service description using the parsed source code; and

generating an internal mapping using the parsed source code allowing a web service method call to be directed to the web-based application using the internal mapping.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

providing the web service interface to a user for modification; and

generating a modified web service interface using the user modification.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the user modification specifies functions for generating an aggregated web service interface using the user modification.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the web service description is defined using a web services description language.

10. A web service interface generation system comprising:

a web-based application accessible by a client;

a web service interface generator interposed between the web-based application and the client,

wherein the web service interface generator;

monitors traffic between the web-based application and the client, generates a web service description using the monitored traffic, and generates an internal mapping using the monitored traffic.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

a user modification component for allowing a user to modify the web service description,

wherein the web service interface generator generates a modified web service description using a user modification generated using the user modification component.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the user modification specifies functions for an aggregated web service interface.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the web service interface generator is hosted by a server hosting the web-based application.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the web service interface generator is hosted by a first server operatively connected to the client and a second server hosting the web-based application.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the web service description is defined using a web services description language.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the monitored traffic comprises hypertext transfer protocol requests.

17. A web service interface generation system comprising:

a web-based application accessible by a client; and

a web service interface generator interposed between the web-based application and the client,

wherein the web service interface generator;

parses source code of the web-based application and the client, generates a web service description using the parsed source code, and generates an internal mapping using the parsed source code.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

a user modification component for allowing a user to modify the web service description,

wherein the web service interface generator generates a modified web service description using a user modification generated using the user modification component.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the user modification specifies functions for an aggregated web service interface.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the web service interface generator is hosted by a server hosting the web-based application.

21. The system of claim 17, wherein the web service interface generator is hosted by a first server operatively connected to the client and a second server hosting the web-based application.

22. The system of claim 17, wherein the web service description is defined using a web services description language.

23. A computer system for generating a web service interface comprising:

a processor;

a memory;

an input means; and

software instructions stored in the memory for enabling the computer system under the control of the processor to;

monitor traffic between the web-based application and the client;

generate a web service description using the monitored traffic; and

generate an internal mapping using the monitored traffic allowing a web service method call to be directed to the web-based application defining the web services interface using the internal mapping.

24. The computer system of claim 23, the software instructions further for enabling the computer system under the control of the processor to:

receive a user modification via the input means of the web service interface,

wherein the software instructions further enable the computer system to generate a modified web service interface using the user modification.

25. The computer system of claim 24, wherein the user modification specifies functions for an aggregated web service interface using a user modification component.

26. The computer system of claim 23, wherein the web service description is defined using a web services description language.

27. The computer system of claim 23, wherein the traffic comprises hypertext transfer protocol requests.

28. A computer system for generating a web service interface comprising:

a processor;

a memory;

an input means; and

software instructions stored in the memory for enabling the computer system under the control of the processor to;

parse source code of the web-based application;

generate a web service description using the parsing source code; and

generate an internal mapping using the parsed source code allowing a web service method call to be directed to the web-based application defining the web services interface using the internal mapping.

29. An apparatus to define a web services interface comprising:

means for monitoring traffic between a web-based application and a client using the web service interface generator;

means for generating the web service description using the monitored traffic; and

means for generating an internal mapping using the monitored traffic allowing a web service method call to be re-directed to the web-based application.

30. An apparatus for generating a web service interface comprising:

means for parsing source code of a web-based application;

means for generating a web service description using the parsed source code; and

means for generating an internal mapping using the parsed source code allowing a web service method call to be directed to the web-based application using the internal mapping.