Patent ID: 8060586

Claim:
At an intermediary computer system in a computer networking environment including a plurality of computing systems, a computer-implemented method for providing dynamically updatable web service components, the method comprising: an act of receiving at a dynamic web service configuration store registration information from a service provider registering one or more web services with the dynamic web service configuration store, the registration information indicating a mapping of which web service components are to be used with corresponding user requests; an act of receiving a request from a user requesting a portion of web service functionality; an act of providing the web service functionality using the web service component indicated in the mapping; an act of receiving an indication from the service provider that one or more web service components are to be updated, the indication including one or more updated web service component portions; an act of dynamically updating the web service component, such that subsequent user requests for the same portion of web service functionality are processed using the updated web service component.