Inter-domain replication of service information

摘要

An automated conversion of service information that includes endpoint addresses of service providers and security policies between independent enterprise information technology (IT) management domains is performed using a federated gateway within each of the independent enterprise IT management domains that bridges the independent enterprise IT management domains. The automated conversion of the service information allows at least one service consumer application executing within a first independent enterprise IT management domain to use a local service definition format to access at least one remote service provider application with a remote service interface defined using a different remote service definition format for execution in a second independent enterprise IT management domain. Service provider application endpoint translation is dynamically performed, in response to at least one service request for the at least one remote service provider application, using the federated gateway within each of the independent enterprise IT management domains that bridges the independent enterprise IT management domains.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
performing an automated conversion of service information comprising endpoint addresses of service providers and security policies between independent enterprise information technology (IT) management domains using a federated gateway within each of the independent enterprise IT management domains that bridges the independent enterprise IT management domains, where the automated conversion of the service information allows at least one service consumer application executing within a first independent enterprise IT management domain to use a local service definition format to access at least one remote service provider application with a remote service interface defined using a different remote service definition format for execution in a second independent enterprise IT management domain; and dynamically performing, in response to at least one service request for the at least one remote service provider application, service provider application endpoint translation using the federated gateway within each of the independent enterprise IT management domains that bridges the independent enterprise IT management domains; where performing the automated conversion of the service information comprising the endpoint addresses of service providers and security policies between the independent enterprise IT management domains using the federated gateway within each of the independent enterprise IT management domains that bridges the independent enterprise IT management domains comprises:
converting the remote service interface to a local service interface defined with the local service definition format; andregistering the local service interface that represents the converted remote service interface within a local runtime service registry that forms a portion of a federated service registry of the federated gateway, and that is accessible by the at least one service consumer application executing within the first independent enterprise IT management domain; and where converting the remote service interface to the local service interface defined with the local service definition format comprises:
replacing an endpoint address of the at least one remote service provider application within the second independent enterprise IT management domain with an endpoint address of a remote governance service registry of the federated gateway; andre-writing the remote service interface definition to convert from a remote protocol to a local protocol used by the local service interface.