Patent ID: 8910185

Claim:
A method for a message queuing application to access a specific application programming interface (API) service, comprising: responsive to an API bridge service detecting a request message placed in a request queue of a message queuing network by a message queuing application, retrieving, by the API bridge service, the request message from the request queue, wherein the request message comprises a generic API message request, wherein the generic API message request comprises an API service request in a message queue format independent of any specific API specification; formatting, by the API bridge service, the generic API message request in the request message into a particular API call for at least one specific API; calling, by the API bridge service, the at least one specific API with the particular API call; responsive to the API bridge service receiving at least one API specific response from the at least one specific API, formatting, by the API bridge service, the at least one API specific response into a response message comprising a generic API response; and placing, by the API bridge service, the response message in a response queue of the message queuing network, wherein the message queuing application listens to the response queue for the response message and retrieves the response message to receive a specific API service from the at least one specific API without calling the at least one specific API.