Abstract: A system and protocol for integrating a plurality of service providers across a plurality of domains with an application using a hosted platform have been described. The system involves registration of metadata corresponding to the service providers, their services, their types and their set of parameters. When a new integrating application is provided, then it also includes a wrapper protocol. The wrapper protocol includes six predefined methods. The hosted platform in turn can execute the request of the “integrating application” by internally connecting with the plurality of service providers across a plurality of domains and provide the output in a standard format. Since the wrapper protocol standardizes the format of communication (input & output), hence it reduces effort substantially at the end of the integrating application. The ability of the platform to increase the list of service providers is augmented as it relies on metadata for request generation and invocation.

Abstract: A system and protocol for integrating a plurality of service providers across a plurality of domains with an application using a hosted platform have been described. The system involves registration of metadata corresponding to the service providers, their services, their types and their set of parameters. When a new integrating application is provided, then it also includes a wrapper protocol. The wrapper protocol includes six predefined methods. The hosted platform in turn can execute the request of the “integrating application” by internally connecting with the plurality of service providers across a plurality of domains and provide the output in a standard format. Since the wrapper protocol standardizes the format of communication (input & output), hence it reduces effort substantially at the end of the integrating application. The ability of the platform to increase the list of service providers is augmented as it relies on metadata for request generation and invocation.