Patent 7590661 was granted and assigned to RICOH COMPANY,LTD. on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A technique is provided for allowing the implementation of Advanced Web Services on a legacy platform. Logical work is separated into modules and the target platform is abstracted through a simple abstract interface. The implementation of one or more Web Services specifications is packaged into a common module (that may be dynamically or statically loaded) so that the complexity of the Web Services is hidden from developers. Also, SOAP and/or WSDL standards may be packaged and implemented into common modules. Developers may create new services while relying on the common modules.