Patent ID: 7761533

Claim:
A method, comprising: during runtime in an object-oriented environment in which one or more processors read program code from memory and process said program: invoking, from an object, a first Web services endpoint method to process a first message by: invoking said first Web services endpoint method through a first interface according to an endpoint method invocation format, said first Web services endpoint method implemented with a first component that is provided one or more services by a first container having a first container defined interface; and, invoking, from said object, a second Web services endpoint method to process a second message by: invoking said second Web services endpoint method through a second interface according to said endpoint method invocation format, said second Web services endpoint method implemented with a second component that is provided one or more services by a second container having a second container defined interface, said first and second container defined interfaces being different, and said first and second interfaces having same front-ends with a back-end of said first interface same as said first container defined interface and a back-end of said second interface same as said second container defined interface, the first interface converting the first Web service endpoint method invocation formatted according to the front-end into a method invocation that is formatted for the first container at the first back-end and the second interface converting the second Web service endpoint method invocation formatted according to the front-end into a method invocation that is formatted for the second container at the second back-end.