US Patent 9418052 Method and apparatus for web service schema management

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for web service schema management. The apparatus includes a processor; a memory including computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: controlling the storing of schema information of a binary web service system, the schemas describing the encoding/decoding of binary XML messages; and providing an interface for maintaining the schema information up-to-date in each component of the binary web service system.