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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2003
Robert Harris, Christchurch, GB;
Robert Harris, Christchurch, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method includes ranking services in a web services architecture and a web services architecture. The web services architecture has a hierarchy of services with a root originating service requester and a service of a first level in the hierarchy calling a service of a lower level. The originating service requestor indicates a preference regarding one or more services and a ranking machine provides a choice algorithm based on the preference. The originating service requestor invokes services of one or more levels of hierarchy. At each level of the hierarchy, a service uses a directory to find a set of possible lower-level services and the ranking machine applies the choice algorithm to the set of possible lower-level services. In one embodiment, the set of possible lower-level services is referred to the ranking machine from the directory and a preferred sequence is returned by the ranking machine to the directory.