OPAQUE MECHANISM FOR WEB SERVICE INTEROPERABILITY

• US 20080077610A1
• Filed: 09/26/2006
• Published: 03/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Marchi, Ronald, Vardhan, Puneet
• Granted Patent: US 8,972,423 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program for parsing a schema across a system to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network, comprising the steps of communicating a plurality of data in a data defining mark-up language file by a transport protocol stack; parsing said data defining mark-up language to determine at least one opaque schema element; and translating said at least one opaque schema element to a mark-up language string element and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions.

Claims

1. A method of parsing a schema across a system to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network, comprising the steps of:

communicating a plurality of data in a data defining mark-up language file by a transport protocol stack;

parsing said data defining mark-up language to determine at least one opaque schema element; and

translating said at least one opaque schema element to a mark-up language string element.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said data defining mark-up language is XML.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said parsing step is included in a Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) format.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said translating step uses a XML namespace.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said XML namespace is an interoperability format.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said communicating step occurs over a network capable of interoperable machine-to-machine interaction.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said transport protocol stack is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said transport protocol stack is SOAP.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said parsing step uses a deep copy mechanism.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprises the steps of:

calling a deep copy helper to extract a plurality of opaque data corresponding to input type;

filling a plurality of objects with said opaque data in a recursive manner; and

returning said objects to convert to an opaque string.

20. The computer-program product of claim 9, further comprises:

instructions for calling a deep copy helper to extract a plurality of opaque data corresponding to input type;

instructions for filling a plurality of objects with said opaque data in a recursive manner; and

instructions for returning said objects to convert to an opaque string.

11. A computer-program product tangibly embodied in a machine readable medium to perform a method of parsing a schema across a plurality of disparate vendors having interoperability of at least one web service, comprising:

instructions for communicating a plurality of data in a data defining mark-up language file by a transport protocol stack;

instructions for parsing said data defining mark-up language to determine at least one opaque schema element; and

instructions for translating said at least one opaque schema element to a mark-up language string element.

12. The computer-program product of claim 11, wherein said data defining mark-up language is XML.

13. The computer-program product of claim 11, wherein said instructions for parsing is included in a Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) format.

14. The computer-program product of claim 11, wherein said instructions for translating uses a XML namespace.

15. The computer-program product of claim 14, wherein said XML namespace is an interoperability format.

16. The computer-program product of claim 11, wherein said instructions for communicating occurs over a network capable of interoperable machine-to-machine interaction.

17. The computer-program product of claim 11, wherein said transport protocol stack is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network.

18. The computer-program product of claim 11, wherein said transport protocol stack is SOAP.

19. The computer-program product of claim 11, wherein said instructions for parsing uses a deep copy mechanism.

21. A data processing system having at least a processor and accessible memory to implement a method for parsing a schema across a system to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network, comprising:

means for communicating a plurality of data in a data defining mark-up language file by a transport protocol stack;

means for parsing said data defining mark-up language to determine at least one opaque schema element; and

means for translating said at least one opaque schema element to a mark-up language string element.