Provisioning Web Services

Abstract

A web service provisioning system including a subscription system having a web service description data correlated to the at least one web service, and provisioning processes data correlated to the at least one web service. The provisioning system also includes an invocation system operatively coupled to the subscription system. A method of provisioning at least one web service, the method including the steps of providing user profile data; providing web service description data correlated to the at least one web service; providing provisioning processes data correlated to the at least one web service; selecting at least one web service; and invoking the provisioning processes data correlated to the selected at least one web service.

1 . (canceled) 
     
     
         2 . The computer program product as claimed in  claim 11 , the method further comprising:
 configuring a service catalog system to present the plurality of web services using the correlated web service description data and to allow selection of a desired web service.   
     
     
         3 . The system computer program product as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein the service catalog system is further configured to determine user profile data. 
     
     
         4 - 10 . (canceled) 
     
     
         11 . A computer program product stored on a computer storage medium having instructions for directing a computer system to perform a method for provisioning a plurality of web services, comprising:
 providing web service description data correlated to each web service of the plurality of web services, wherein the web service description data is in Web Services Definition Language;   providing respective provisioning processes data for each web service of the plurality of web services and for each of a plurality of provisioning web services that correlate to respective administrative systems supporting the plurality of web services, wherein the provisioning processes data comprises a plurality of nodes, and wherein each node comprises web service invocation data correlated to invoking a respective provisioning web service, and wherein the provisioning processes data is in Web Services Flow Language;   receiving a selection of a first web service;   invoking the respective provisioning processes data for the first web service; and   
       invoking the respective provisioning processes data for each provisioning web service that correlates to a respective administrative system supporting the first web service. 
     
     
         12 . The computer program product as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the plurality of provisioning web services for administering the plurality of web services correlate to administrative systems chosen from a group consisting of a billing system, a security system, and a user profile system.