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Specifying data in a standards style pattern of service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments

  • US 9,329,860 B2
  • Filed: 02/10/2015
  • Issued: 05/03/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method implemented in a computer infrastructure, comprising:

  • defining an interface comprising one or more local data elements and one or more references to one or more common data elements, of a service, the one or more common data elements being defined in a library for a plurality of services, wherein the one or more common data elements are not defined in the library as being mandatory for any of the plurality of services;

    configuring a data definition file (DDF), the configuring comprising defining an optionality attribute for each of the one or more local data elements and the one or more common data elements as mandatory for the service; and

    validating the one or more common data elements from the service message as mandatory for the service based on the interface and the configured DDF, wherein;

    the validating comprises determining that one or more virtual links exists between one or more references to the one or more common data elements in the interface and the one or more common data elements defined in the DDF; and

    the validating is performed in a reception layer of the service that receives the one or more data elements from a computing device.

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