Opaque mechanism for web service interoperability

• US 8,972,423 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2006
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Vardhan, Puneet, Marchi, Ronald
• Primary Examiner(s): Reyes, Mariela
• Assistant Examiner(s): Black, Linh
• Application Number:
  US11/535,420
• Publication Number:
  US 20080077610A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,080 Days
• Field of Search: 707/100, 707/104.1, 707/203, 707/604, 707809-811, 707/755, 707/760
• US Class Current: 707/755
• 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 by a deep copy mechanism comprising 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; 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. A computer readable medium for storing executable instructions 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 by a deep copy mechanism comprising;

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; and

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

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein said data defining mark-up language is XML.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein said instructions for parsing is included in a Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) format.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein said instructions for translating uses a XML namespace.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein said XML namespace is an interoperability format.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein said instructions for communicating occurs over a network capable of interoperable machine-to-machine interaction.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein said transport protocol stack is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein said transport protocol stack is SOAP.

17. A data processing system comprising a processor and accessible memory;

the data processing system configured to implement a method for parsing a schema across a system to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network by performing 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 by a deep copy mechanism; and

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