Quality of service management for message flows across multiple middleware environments

A method of providing a consistent level of quality of service (QoS) in an information system including a first middleware domain and a second middleware domain, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a QoS bridge, at least one QoS requirement from a first QoS manager associated with the first middleware domain, wherein the at least one QoS requirement is received by the first QoS manager from a first client associated with the first middleware domain;
• propagating the at least one QoS requirement from the QoS bridge to a second QoS manager associated with the second middleware domain;
• translating by the QoS bridge the at least one QoS requirement to at least one QoS parameter specific to a messaging service that communicatively couples the first and second middleware domains such that the at least one QoS parameter is received by a second client associated with the second middleware domain;
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• utilizing the messaging service to receive and enforce the at least one QoS parameter and facilitate a message flow between the first and second middleware domains, with a consistent QoS between the first client and the second client.

A quality of service (QoS) bridge for providing a message flow having a consistent level of QoS across a first middleware domain and a second middleware domain, said QoS bridge embedded in a memory and executed on a processing device, said QoS bridge configured to:

• receive a QoS message expressing at least one QoS requirement from a first QoS manager associated with the first middleware domain;
• propagate the at least one QoS requirement to a second QoS manager associated with the second middleware domain;
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• translate the at least one QoS requirement to at least one QoS parameter, said QoS bridge configured to utilize a messaging service to receive and enforce the at least one QoS parameter and facilitate the message flow having a consistent QoS between clients associated with the first and second middleware domains.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium for managing quality of service (QoS) in an information system that includes at least a first middleware domain and a second middleware domain, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable medium includes computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, wherein when executed by at least one processor, the computer-executable instructions cause the at least one processor to:

• execute a first QoS manager on said at least one processor such that a QoS message expressing at least one QoS parameter is received from a first client associated with the first middleware domain;
• execute a QoS bridge on said at least one processor such that the QoS message is received from said first QoS manager;
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• execute a second QoS manager on said at least one processor such that the QoS message from said QoS bridge is received by said second QoS manager and forwarded to a second client associated with the second middleware domain, providing end-to-end message flow having consistent QoS between the first and second clients.