Patent ID: 8321498

Claim:
A method comprising: intercepting, at a communication interface of a framework, a communication from a web services provider to register a web service interface description with a register; obtaining, at the framework, the web service interface description; determining, at the framework, at least one policy associated with the web services provider; for each of the determined policies, determining, at the framework, one or more policy parameters associated with the respective policy; generating, via the communications interface of the framework, an update to the web service interface description as a result of enforcement of the at least one policy; determining, at runtime by the communications interface of the framework, changes to be made to the web service interface description based on the update; updating the web service interface description by adding the one or more policy parameters to the web service interface description, wherein the one or more policy parameters are configured to enforce resource access for the web service interface; and transmitting, from the communication interface of the framework to the register, the updated web service interface description and the policy parameters, wherein the transmitting the updated web service interface description and the policy parameters comprises: modifying the updated web service interface description to include the policy parameters, wherein modifying the updated web service interface description comprises modifying a web services discover response to include the policy parameters, and wherein the modifying of the web services discover response comprises adding the policy parameters to a header of the web services discover response; and transmitting the modified updated web service interface description to a requester.