Patent ID: 7668934

Claim:
A system for port type agnostic proxy support for web services intermediaries, the system comprising: means for receiving in a web services intermediary a request for execution of a web services operation, wherein: the web services intermediary includes a proxy, wherein no configuration data available to the proxy describes an endpoint of the target service and the requester submits requests for operations in port types completely unknown to the intermediary; and the request includes parametric information from which an endpoint for a target service that supports the operation is identified; means for identifying, in dependence upon the parametric data, the endpoint for a target service that supports the operation; means for creating a target service request for execution of the operation on the target service, further comprising: means for composing the request in a data structure useful in a binding-neutral interface; and means for calling the binding-neutral interface, passing the request as a call parameter; and means for issuing the target service request to the target service.