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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsYongcheng Li, Sajan Sankaran, Spencer H. Shepard, IV, Yih-Shin Tan
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Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically transforming data or business messages to enable communication between parties in a distributed computing environment (e.g. between business partners who exchange data over a public network, and who do not necessarily use the same data formats), where this data transformation preferably occurs at the edge of the computing network. A set of transformation services is described, and include template registration, transformation, forward, and receive services. Services from this set may optionally be combined to create composite transformation services. A template defines how to transform one data format into another. Selection criteria may be provided to enable dynamically selecting a template at run-time. Using these services, one business partner simply hands its data off into the network to a network-accessible transformation service, where the data is automatically transformed into a format usable by its business partner and forwarded to that business partner.
A method of automatically transforming data or business messages between communications parties in a computing network, comprising steps of:
A system for communicating between application programs in a computing environment, comprising:
A computer program product comprising at least one computer useable media, the media embodying computer-usable program code for communicating between application programs in a computing environment, the computer program product comprising:
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