Method and apparatus for dynamically controlling the selection and redundancy of web service components

摘要

The present invention provides an application component manager that dynamically manages a collection of web services depending on a consumer application's desired constraints and according to one of the plurality of policies. Thus, for example, if a consumer application requires highly accurate/reliable results, the application component manager may use majority rules policy to select from among the results of several web services. If the consumer application required fast results, the application component manager may use a “first to return” policy to return the first result obtained from one of the web services.