Patent ID: 8484663
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of deriving web service interfaces from form and table metadata comprising: receiving from a service client at a discovery subsystem a first request for services that are available on an application server; responding to the first request with a web service entry corresponding to a form registered in a database table as a service, wherein the form defines receiving from the service client a second request for a description of the service; retrieving form metadata regarding the form on the application server; determining from the form metadata what fields from what tables are shown on the form; retrieving table metadata regarding properties of the fields, wherein each of the fields shown on the form appears as a field in the XML type using a name and type of the field from the table metadata; and using the form metadata and the table metadata to respond to the second request with a description of the service in the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) format.