Patent ID: 7051094

Claim:
A method comprising: generating a set of management information for each of service interactions among e-services in a composite e-service arranged in a tree structure including a first e-service that provides a portal to the composite e-service; in performing the service interactions, at least the first e-service sending a first request to a second e-service at a first lower level of the tree structure, the second e-service sending a second request to a third e-service at a second lower level of the tree structure lower than the first lower level, and the third e-service sending a third request to a fourth e-service at a third lower level of the tree structure lower than the second lower level; transferring the sets of management information up the tree structure to the first e-service; and combining the management information at the first e-service and at the e-services at the first and second lower levels of the tree structure.