Patent ID: 8024375

Claim:
A processing method of processing a simple object access protocol (SOAP) message generated by using a structured language, the method comprising the steps of: receiving the SOAP message; detaching a file from the SOAP message when the file is attached to a body of the received SOAP message; storing the file detached from the received SOAP message in a memory; determining type information corresponding to an element in the body of the SOAP message based on pre-registered type information including an attached file type indicating that the element in the body of the received SOAP message refers the file attached to the body of the received SOAP message; constructing data having construction corresponding to an application programming interface for the structured language and including the element in the of the received SOAP message, to which the determined type information is added in the constructing step, on the basis of the element in the body of the received SOAP message; adding, as an instance of the element to which the attached file type is added in the constructed data, information for obtaining from the memory the file referred by the element to which the attached file type is added, to the element to which the attached file type is added in the constructed data; processing data constructed in the step of constructing; outputting a processing result having the construction; obtaining, from the memory, the file referred by an element included in the processing result; and generating, from the element of the processing result, a second SOAP message by using a structure language, to which the file obtained is attached and in which information for referring to the file is recorded in an element which refers to the file.