Patent ID: 7444433

Claim:
A computing system, which comprises: a bus which includes a channel manager component that provides for at least three different types of channels, the at least three different types of channels including a service channel, an event channel and a stream channel, which provide for communication between a plurality of different service requestors and a plurality of different service providers, and includes a service discovery component that identifies a plurality of different types of interfaces for the plurality of different service providers, wherein the different types of channels correspond to the plurality of different types of interfaces; a service requestor container operatively coupled to said bus, said service requestor container containing a service requestor application; a service provider container operatively coupled to said bus, said service provider container containing a service provider application; wherein the service provider container includes an interaction broker component, said interaction broker providing an interface between said bus and said service provider application; a virtual data store operatively coupled to said service requestor container and to said service provider container, wherein said virtual data store includes a posting service component operatively coupled to said service provider container; a read/write data store operatively coupled to said posting service; an inquiry service component operatively coupled to said service requestor container; a read-only data store operatively coupled to said inquiry service component; and, a replication component operatively coupled to said read-only data store and said read/write data store.