Apparatus, system, and method for implementing an IMS SOAP gateway to enable an IMS application to operate as a web service client

摘要

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for implementing an Information Management System (IMS) simple object access protocol (SOAP) gateway. The gateway extracts an identifier from a web service request received from an IMS application and selects a correlation mapping based on the extracted identifier. The gateway builds a modified web service request, updated with parameters from the correlation mapping. The added parameters allow the gateway to direct the web service request to a specific web service provider. Upon receiving a response from the web service provider, the gateway uses the correlation mapping including an IMS application identifier to properly route the web service response to a selected IMS application.