Type extensions to web services description language

A method for providing network services according to a request made in an extensible markup language expression, the method comprising:

• identifying in the expression, an element of a type further defined in a schema as a port type, and the schema further defines a child type of the port type including a class type defined to be accessed remotely.

A computer readable medium having stored thereon, instructions for verifying that an extensible mark-up language expression is received according to a schema and an extensible mark-up language web services definition comprising:

• an instruction for verifying an element of a type defined as a service reference type including a child element identifying,
• a remote network location where requests are received for the service reference, and
• a type of service supported at the remote network location.

In a computer readable medium, a defined grammar for a web service definitions language, including a root definitions element, and computer executable instructions for validating that a web service request is formatted according to the grammar, the instructions comprising:

• instructions for validating the format of the following child element of the root definitions element,
• a port type element with an extended child element including a service class element.

A computer readable storage medium containing data with a structure formed according to a object model agnostic web services definition language, said structure causing a computer to perform web services according to a service request received on a network connection, the structure comprising:

• a service reference including a binding to an implementation on a typed service class;
• wherein the computer determines the requested service from the structure, and invokes an implementation of the service class.

A computer readable storage medium containing data with a structure formed according to a object model agnostic web services definition language, said structure causing a computer to perform web services according to a service request received on a network connection, the structure comprising:

• an element with an attribute assigned a unique identifier, and
• any number of additional elements including a field with a typed reference referring to the element by its unique identifier;
• wherein the computer creates in memory, based on the structure, a graph of objects representing the element and the any number of additional elements referring to the element by its unique identifier.