Method and system for wrapping existing web-based applications producing web services

• US 20040006653A1
• Filed: 06/27/2002
• Published: 01/08/2004
• 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:
  US10/185,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20040006653A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/330
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion

Abstract

A network system including a web-based application accessible by a client; and a web service interface proxy interposed between the client and the web-based application, wherein the web service interface proxy allows web service calls to be directed to the web-based application using an internal mapping of the web-based application.

Claims

1. A network system comprising:

a web-based application accessible by a client; and

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

wherein the web service interface proxy allows web service calls to be directed to the web-based application using an internal mapping of the web-based application.

2. The network system of claim 1, the web service interface proxy comprising a web service description.

3. The network system of claim 1, wherein the web service interface proxy converts a method call from the client into a request to the web-based application using the internal mapping.

4. The network system of claim 3, wherein the web service interface proxy converts a response to the request from web-based application to a format compatible with the client.

5. The network system of claim 3, the request generated using a web service description.

6. The network system of claim 3, wherein the method call is Service Oriented Architecture Protocol complaint.

7. The network system of claim 1, wherein the web service interface proxy is located on a server hosting the web-based application.

8. The network system of claim 1, wherein the client is a web service client.

9. The network system of claim 1, wherein the internal mapping is located on the web service interface proxy.

10. A network system comprising:

a web-based application accessible by a client; and

a web service interface proxy interposed between the client and the web-based application having a web service interface.

11. The network system of claim 10, the web service interface proxy comprising an internal mapping and a web service description.

12. The network system of claim 11, wherein the internal mapping converts a method call from the client into a request to the web-based application using the internal mapping.

13. The network system of claim 12, wherein the method call is generated using the web service description.

14. A method for facilitating communication between a web-based application and a client comprising:

receiving a request from the client;

converting the received request using an internal mapping to a formatted request; and

forwarding the formatted request to the web-based application.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

receiving a response corresponding to the formatted request from the web-based application;

converting the response using a web service interface proxy to a formatted response; and

forwarding the formatted response to the client.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the request is Service Oriented Architecture Protocol complaint.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the internal mapping is located on the web service interface proxy.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the web service interface proxy and the web-based application are located on a server.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the formatted request is hypertext transfer protocol compliant.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the web service description is located in a web service registry.

21. The method of claim 14, wherein the web service description is web service description language compliant.

22. A method for facilitating communication between a web-based application and a client comprising:

receiving a request from the client;

converting the received request using an internal mapping to a formatted request;

forwarding the formatted request to the web-based application;

receiving a response corresponding to the formatted request from the web-based application;

converting the response using a web service interface proxy to a formatted response; and

forwarding the formatted response to the client.

23. An apparatus for facilitating communication between a web-based application and a client comprising:

means for receiving a request from the client;

means for converting the received request using an internal mapping to a formatted request;

means for forwarding the formatted request to the web-based application;

means for receiving a response corresponding to the formatted request from the web-based application;

means for converting the response using a web service interface proxy to a formatted response; and

means for forwarding the formatted response to the client.