Patent ID: 7822842

Claim:
A system for managing connection between web services, the system being connected through a wired/wireless communication network and configured to perform computer communication and operation processing, comprising: an external web service connection setup server including a meta-information input unit for receiving external web service meta-information, a connection rule establishment unit for establishing external web service connection rules according to a regular expression syntax, a connection rule verification unit for verifying whether the established connection rules conform to a regular expression rule, and a connection rule storage unit for storing connection rules conforming to the regular expression syntax; and an external web service connection management server including a connection test unit for generating a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) by searching the stored connection rules for an applicable rule corresponding to each connection target stored in a connection target database and by applying the applicable rule to the connection target, and then accessing the URL and acquiring a returned page, and a connection result storage unit for storing connection results, indicating whether the returned page is a success page or a failure page, in the connection target DB.