RETRIEVING SPECIFIC HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION USING WEB SERVICES
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1. A method of facilitating retrieval of specific information from a web service, said method being performed in a server, said method comprising:
- receiving a request containing an operation to be performed and a data indicating said specific information to be retrieved;
performing said operation to generate a result;
determining said specific information from said result based on said data; and
sending said specific information as a response to said request.
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Abstract
Retrieving specific hierarchical information using web services. In one embodiment, a user sends a request containing an operation to be performed and a data indicating the specific information of interest to a web service. The web service determines the specific hierarchical information from a result of performance of the operation. The user then receives the determined information as a response to the request.
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1. A method of facilitating retrieval of specific information from a web service, said method being performed in a server, said method comprising:
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receiving a request containing an operation to be performed and a data indicating said specific information to be retrieved; performing said operation to generate a result; determining said specific information from said result based on said data; and sending said specific information as a response to said request. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12)
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8. A method of retrieving specific information using a web service, said method comprising:
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sending a request to said web service, wherein said request contains an operation to be performed and a data indicating said specific information to be retrieved, wherein said operation is one of a plurality of operations provided by a designer implementing said web service, wherein performance of said operation is designed to generate a result; and receiving a response to said request, wherein said response contains said specific information determined from said result.
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9. A computing system comprising:
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a request manager for receiving a web service request containing an operation to be performed and a data indicating a specific information to be retrieved; an application designed to provide a result of performance of said operation, wherein said result contains said specific information; and an information handler for determining said specific information from said result based on said data, wherein said request manager sends a web service response containing said specific information.
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13. The computing system of claim 13, wherein said first tag handler is further operable to:
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receive said first tag and said hierarchical expression containing said sequence of tags; determine whether said first tag is the end tag in said sequence of tags; and retrieve a data from said result at the location indicated by said hierarchical expression if said first tag is the end tag, wherein said data is returned as said first value. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A machine readable medium storing one or more sequences of instructions for causing a server system to facilitate retrieval of specific information from a web service, wherein execution of said one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors contained in said server system causes said server system to perform the actions of:
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receiving a request containing an operation to be performed and a data indicating said specific information to be retrieved; performing said operation to generate a result; determining said specific information from said result based on said data; and sending said specific information as a response to said request. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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