Patent ID: 7464142

Claim:
A method of port type agnostic proxy support for web services intermediaries, the method comprising: receiving in a web services intermediary a request for execution of a web services operation, wherein: the web services intermediary includes a proxy, wherein no configuration data available to the proxy describes an endpoint of the target service and the requester submits request for operations in port types completely unknown to the intermediary; and the request includes parametric information from which an endpoint for a target service that supports the operation is identified; identifying, by the web services intermediary in dependence upon the parametric data, the endpoint for a target service that supports the operation; creating, by the web services intermediary, a target service request for execution of the operation on the target service, further comprising: composing a request in a data structure useful in a binding-neutral interface; and calling the binding-neutral interface, passing the request as a call parameter; and issuing, by the web services intermediary, the target service request to the target service.