Patent ID: 8918477

Claim:
A method, comprising: performing an automated conversion of service information between independent information technology (IT) management domains using a federated gateway within each of the independent IT management domains that bridges the independent IT management domains, where the automated conversion of service information allows at least one service consumer application executing within a first independent IT management domain to use a local service definition format to access at least one remote service provider application with a remote service interface defined using a different remote service definition format for execution in a second independent IT management domain; and dynamically processing at least one service request for the at least one remote service provider application via service provider application endpoint translation using the federated gateway within each of the independent IT management domains that bridges the independent IT management domains; where performing the automated conversion of service information between independent IT management domains using the federated gateway within each of the independent IT management domains that bridges the independent IT management domains comprises: identifying, via a local governance service registry within the first independent IT management domain, a definition of the at least one remote service provider application within a remote governance service registry within the second independent IT management domain, where the local governance service registry and the remote governance service registry form a federated service registry gateway as part of the federated gateway within each of the independent IT management domains that bridges service registration between the independent IT management domains; converting the remote service interface to a local service interface defined with the local service definition format; and registering the local service interface that represents the converted remote service interface within a local runtime service registry accessible by the at least one service consumer application executing within the first independent IT management domain; and where converting the remote service interface to the local service interface defined with the local service definition format comprises: replacing an endpoint address of the at least one remote service provider application within the second independent IT management domain with an endpoint address of the remote governance service registry of the federated gateway; and re-writing a remote service interface definition to convert from a remote protocol to a local protocol used by the local service interface.