Patent ID: 7937500

Claim:
A computer program product for dynamically integrating software resources in a computing network, the computer program product stored on at least one tangible computer-readable storage media and comprising: computer-readable program code for specifying, in a service description document, a functional interface of a proxying component, wherein the proxying component plugs in to a content aggregation framework and serves, when plugged in to the content aggregation framework, as a proxy for a collection comprising a plurality of software resources that are thereby accessible from the content aggregation framework, wherein the functional interface specifies operations that are invocable from the collection of software resources as operations that are invocable from the plugged-in proxying component; computer-readable program code for registering the service description document in a network-accessible registry; computer-readable program code for using the registered service description document to locate the proxying component when subsequently searching the network-accessible registry; computer-readable program code for plugging the located proxying component in to the content aggregation framework; and computer-readable program code for using the content aggregation framework to programmatically and dynamically integrate the collection of software resources at run-time to carry out a software service, via the plugged-in proxying component, by invoking at least one of the operations that are invocable from the plugged-in proxying component.