Patent Document ID: 8650479
Application ID: 12849542

Base Claim:
1. A computer program product for Web Services policy attachment, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code configured to, receive a reference to a selected Web Services description document for Web Services policy attachment, the selected Web Services description document including at least one definition to describe a Web Service; locate a logical object of the selected description Web Services document that permits Web Services policy attachment; receive a reference to the logical object that is located for Web Services policy attachment; search for at least one policy among a plurality of policies for attachment to the logical object based on a type and properties of the logical object, wherein a set of the plurality of policies are configurable for attachment to the logical object based on the type of the logical object, wherein a smaller subset of the plurality of policies that is smaller than the set of the plurality of policies are configurable for attachment based on the properties of the object, wherein at least some policies in the plurality of policies not within the set of plurality of policies and the subset of the plurality of policies are not configurable for attachment to the logical object based on the type and the properties of the logical object; locate the at least one policy that is operable to be associated with the logical object that is referenced, wherein the at least one policy defines a rule for the Web Service, wherein as part of the locate of the at least one policy, the computer program code is configured to check the type and the properties of the logical object against an object type and object properties that the at least one policy accepts; receive a reference for a selected policy from among the at least one policy; and attach the selected policy to the selected Web Services description document.

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Claim 3:
3. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the computer program code is configured to create a policy attachment document that references the selected policy and the logical object, as part of attaching the selected policy to the selected Web Services description document.