Patent ID: 7152094
Filing Date: 2006-12-19
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for brokering messages between middleware systems comprising: communicating a message from a mainframe system in a Cobol copybook format; mapping the message in Cobol copybook format onto the fields in a structured event format; communicating the message converted from Cobol copybook format to structured event format to a middleware brokering system; communicating a message from a JMS system in a JMS message format; mapping the message in the JMS message format onto the fields in a structured event format; communicating the message converted from the JMS message format to the structured event format to the middleware brokering system; communicating a message from a CORBA system in the structured event format to the middleware brokering system; using the middleware broker to determine the destination for each of the messages from the JMS, CORBA, and mainframe systems; and directing each of the messages to the appropriate one of the JMS, CORBA, and mainframe systems.