Patent ID: 8010695

Claim:
A system comprising: a processor; and a memory to store a web services archive that is associated with a web service archive file, the web services archive includes, a web service implementation, a web service definition language (WSDL) file describing a web service, a WSDL mapping file to describe a mapping between the web service implementation and the WSDL file, a types file containing descriptors to define the web service, a configuration file includes a plurality of protocol definitions associated with the web service, the plurality of protocol definitions includes a first protocol definition utilized to generate a first protocol instance, a deployment manager to notify a protocol in a protocol stack that the web services archive file has been deployed, the protocol to communicate with a runtime framework that is designed to permit the first protocol instance to directly invoke a runtime object without a context as an intermediary between the first protocol instance and the runtime object, and a metadata descriptor file to describe a location in the web services archive of at least one of the files in the web services archive.