RELAY SERVER, RELAY METHOD AND RELAY PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily cope with a change of a Web service.

SOLUTION: This relay server has: an HDD for storing an association table wherein a corresponding operation of a plurality of operations predefined so as to make a function be executed between an MFP and the relay server is associated to a plurality of operations to use Web services provided by a plurality of Web servers; a message reception part 51 for receiving a message including the plurality of operations predefined between the MFP and the relay server; a conversion part 53 for converting the message by use of the association table; a function execution instruction part 55 for transmitting the converted message to a Web server capable of executing the function specified by the message, and making the function be executed according to the converted message; an execution result reception part 57 for receiving an execution result of the function from the Web server; and an execution result transmission part 59 for transmitting the received execution result to the MFP.

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