AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an authentication information processing apparatus capable of performing communication by using different authentication systems in combination when authentication systems when a client utilizes Web service are different. SOLUTION: The authentication information processing apparatus is provided with: a registration means for creating and registering WSDL documents for each of the two different authentication systems from a WSDL document registered by the Web service for communication; a selection means for analyzing, when a request message is received from the client, the content of the received request message to determine which of the two authentication systems is used and to select the WSDL document of the applicable authentication system from the two WSDL documents; and a communication control means for performing the communication between the Web service and the client by extracting the authentication information from the received request message according to the WSDL document selected by the selection means and delivering the extracted authentication information to the Web service according to the authentication system supported by the Web service. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT