REROUTE OF A WEB SERVICE IN A WEB BASED APPLICATION

• US 20090094314A1
• Filed: 10/04/2007
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: CHEN, Jing-tan T.
• Granted Patent: US 9,479,599 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• 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

Abstract

The invention relates to systems and method for rerouting web service messages. A method for performing web services includes receiving a web service request from a client, rerouting the web service request to a server, receiving results of the web service request, and sending the results of the web service request to the client. The rerouting can be used with messages/requests formulated in Simple Object Access Protocol (also referred to as Service Oriented Architecture Protocol, or simply SOAP).

Claims

1. A method for performing web services, comprising:

receiving a web service request from a client;

sending the web service request to a server;

receiving results of the web service request;

sending the results of the web service request to the client; and

determining an identity of the server to which the web service request is sent by extracting the identity from data contained within the web service request, wherein the determining is performed by a web services hosting server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the web service request is arranged in SOAP protocol.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the web services hosting server performs the receiving a web service request from a client, the sending the web service request to a server, the receiving results of the web service request, and the sending the results of the web service request to the client.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the server is one of a plurality of web applications servers accessible by the web services hosting server.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein each of the plurality of web applications servers communicates with a respective web applications database.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein:

the web services hosting server functions as a host when performing the receiving a web service request from a client, and when performing the sending the results of the web service request to the client, and

the web services hosting server functions as a client when performing the sending the web service request to the server, and when performing the receiving results of the web service request.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the steps of claim 1 are provided by a service provider under at least one of:

a subscription, fee agreement, and based on advertising content to one or more third parties.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein a service provider at least one of creates, maintains, deploys and supports a computer infrastructure that performs at least one of the steps of claim 1.

22. The method of claim 4, wherein the web services hosting server is configured to reroute SOAP messages and requests to an appropriate one of the plurality of web applications servers.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein each one of a plurality of web applications servers is associated with a respective geographic region.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the web services hosting server communicates with the client using a wired communications link

7. (canceled)

8. (canceled)

11. A method for handling web services, comprising:

providing a computer infrastructure structured and arranged to;

receive a web service request from a web services client;

send the web service request to one of a plurality of web applications servers;

receive a result of the web service request from the one of the plurality of web applications servers;

send the result of the web service request to the web service client; and

determine an identity of the one of the plurality of web applications servers from data contained within the web service request.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the web service request is formulated in SOAP protocol.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the computer infrastructure comprises a web services hosting server.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein,

the web services hosting server functions as a host when receiving the web service request from the web services client, and when sending the result of the web service request to the web services client, and

the web services hosting server functions as a client when sending the web service request to the one of the plurality of web applications servers, and when receiving the result of the web service request from the one of the plurality of web applications servers.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein:

the web services client is one of a plurality of web services clients, and

the web services hosting server is arranged to reroute web services requests from any of the plurality of web service clients.

15. (canceled)

17. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program embodied in the medium, the medium comprising one of semiconductor memory, solid state memory, magnetic tape, diskette, random access memory, read-only memory, rigid magnetic disk and optical disk, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computing device is operable to cause the computing device to:

receive a web service request from a web services client;

reroute the web service request to a server;

receive a result of the web service request from the server;

send the result of the web service request to the web services client; and

determine an identity of the server to which the web service request is sent by extracting the identity from data contained within the web service request.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the web service request is formulated in SOAP.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein,

the computing device functions as a host when receiving the web service request from the web services client, and when sending the results of the web service request to the web services client, and

the computing device functions as a client when rerouting the web service request to the server, and when receiving the results of the web service request from the server.

20. A system for processing web service requests, comprising:

a web services hosting server; and

a plurality of web applications servers, each being associated with a respective web applications database,

wherein the web services hosting server is structured and arranged to;

receive, as a host, a web service request from one of a plurality of web services clients;

determine an identity of one of the plurality of web applications servers to which the web service request is to be sent by extracting the identity from data contained within the web service request;

send, as a client, the web service request to the one of the plurality of web applications servers;

receive, as a client, a result of the web service request from the one of the plurality of web applications servers; and

send, as a host, the result of the web service request to the one of the plurality of web services clients.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the web service request is formulated in SOAP.