Abstract: A web service providing apparatus and a web service requesting apparatus that use an inheritable web service by including access modifiers and inheritance relationships for domains, functions, and services in a WSDL for the web service and by referring to the access modifiers and the inheritance relationships, and method of the same. The web service providing apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores an interface document comprising inheritance information and service processing logic; a message generating unit that, with reference to the service processing logic, generates a response message comprising at least one of a result value for a request of a web service and a providing location where the result value is calculated; and a message transmitting/receiving unit that, according to a web service specification, receives a request message comprising the request of the web service and transmits the generated response message as a response to the request message.

Abstract: A method for transmitting a WS message and an apparatus for processing a WS message, the method includes providing data in the form of a WS message, addressing the WS message to a plurality of receiving nodes, and transmitting the addressed WS message to the plurality of receiving nodes.

Abstract: A web service processing apparatus and method web services can provide by combining web services. The web service processing apparatus includes a registration unit where a plurality of web services are compounded and registered through predetermined conditions, a storage unit where the registered web service lists are stored, and an execution unit where the web service selected among the stored web service lists is executed by referring to the conditions.