Dynamic service composition and orchestration

• US 20060212593A1
• Filed: 05/20/2005
• Published: 09/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Kasi, Jayaram, Mihic, Matthew, Urhan, Tolga, Kapoor, Chet, Aletty, Ashok, Patrick, Paul B.
• Granted Patent: US 7,774,485 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce

Abstract

A system, method and media for service infrastructure that enables dynamic service composition and orchestration. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims.

Claims

1. A method for interconnecting a plurality of processes in a switching fabric, comprising:

resolving transport protocol variances dynamically among the plurality of processes;

resolving message format variances dynamically among the plurality of processes;

conveying message traffic between the plurality of processes; and

wherein a process in the plurality of processes is one of;

a client, a service, a web service, and a service proxy.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

satisfying authentication and/or authorization requirements among the plurality of processes.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the conveying includes:

routing a message to a process in the plurality of processes based on information in the message.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the resolving message format incompatibilities includes:

converting a message to a format that is compatible with a destination process in the plurality of processes.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the resolving transport protocol incompatibilities includes:

sending a message to a destination process in the plurality of processes via a transport protocol that is compatible with the destination process.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein:

a transport protocol is one of;

File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), HTTP/Secure (HTTPS), Java Message Service (JMS), file and electronic mail.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the switching fabric is a message processing graph that includes a plurality of interconnected message processing nodes through which the message traffic is conveyed.

15. A network accessible device configured to perform the steps of claim 1.

8. A machine readable medium having instructions stored thereon that when used cause a system to:

resolve transport protocol variances dynamically among a plurality of processes;

resolve message format variances dynamically among the plurality of processes;

convey message traffic between the plurality of processes; and

wherein a process in the plurality of processes is one of;

a client, a service, a web service, and a service proxy.

9. A service infrastructure comprising:

a message services layer configured to interconnect a plurality of processes through at least one service proxy;

a information services layer configured to provide a unified view of information obtained from a plurality of information sources;

a security services layer configured to provide distributed security to the message services layer; and

wherein a process in the plurality of processes is one of;

a client, a service, a web service, and a service proxy.

10. The service infrastructure of claim 9 wherein:

the information services layer is further configured to redact a portion of the information obtained based on a security policy.

11. The service infrastructure of claim 9 wherein:

the security services layer is further configured to provision security information.

12. The service infrastructure of claim 9 wherein:

the security services layer is further configured to guard a resource.

13. The service infrastructure of claim 9, wherein the message services layer further comprises:

a plurality of message processing nodes that are each configured to perform at least one action based message traffic flowing between the plurality of processes.

14. The service infrastructure of claim 13 wherein:

an action is one of;

resolving transport protocol variances dynamically among the plurality of processes;

resolving message format variances dynamically among the plurality of processes;

conveying message traffic between the plurality of processes; and

satisfying authentication and/or authorization requirements among the plurality of processes.

16. A system comprising one or more components capable of performing the following steps:

resolving transport protocol variances dynamically among a plurality of processes;

resolving message format variances dynamically among the plurality of processes;

conveying message traffic between the plurality of processes; and

wherein a process in the plurality of processes is one of;

a client, a service, a web service, and a service proxy.

17. The system of claim 16, further capable of performing the following step:

satisfying authentication and/or authorization requirements among the plurality of processes.

18. The system of claim 16, further capable of performing the following step:

routing the message to a process in the plurality of processes based on information in the message.

19. The system of claim 16, further capable of performing the following step:

converting the message to a format that is compatible with a destination process in the plurality of processes.

20. The system of claim 16, further capable of performing the following step:

sending the message to a destination process in the plurality of processes via a transport protocol that is compatible with the destination process.