International Business Machines Corporation

Ralph A Hertlein

David De-Hui Chen

John Williams Miller

William R Wise, Jr

Anthony Joseph Nadalin

Keeranoor G Kumar

Rania Yousef Khalaf

Ralph Peter Williams

Michael G McIntosh

Shishir Saxena

Sreedhar Janaswamy

Paul R Bunter

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed in which generating evidence of web services transactions are provided generally by receiving in an ultimate recipient web service from an initial sender a request, the request containing a proof of message origin ('PMO'). The PMO contains an element addressed to the ultimate recipient web service and the element bears a first signature, the first signature having a value. Embodiments also include authenticating the identity of the initial sender; creating a proof of message receipt ('PMR') including signing the value of the first signature; sending the PMR to the initial sender, receiving, by the initial sender, the PMR; and saving, by the initial sender, the PMR.

Generating evidence of web services transactions

An exemplary feature is a method for using XML Schema based standards. The method consists of constructing a reduced schema for a specific interaction from a collection of reusable artifacts. The method further consists of publishing the reduced schema in a repository thereby allowing the reduced schema to be reused.

Method and system for creation and reuse of concise business schemas using a canonical library

Method and system for the creation and reuse of concise business schemas using a canonical library

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Ralph A Hertlein