Abstract: A system and method of fault management includes receiving a service request, encountering a fault in during the execution of the service request, persisting the fault, and providing a fault response.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for monitoring the response time for a web service provider is provided. In one embodiment, receiving a web service inbound transaction is received at a web service proxy server. The web service proxy server invokes a response time monitoring service and provides the response time monitoring service with a unique transaction identifier for the inbound transaction. The web service proxy server also invokes, on the web service provider, a web service requested by the inbound transaction. The proxy server later receives an outbound transaction from the web service provider corresponding to the original inbound transaction and invokes the response time monitoring service, once again, providing the unique transaction identifier to the response time monitoring service.

Abstract: One aspect of the invention is a transaction processing system comprising a software service operable to receive a transaction request and to generate a first object associated with the transaction request. An object generator may convert the first object into a first document written in a self-describing language. A document generator may convert the first document into a first transaction message according to a schema associated with a first transaction type determinable from the first document.