| US 7,502,999 B1 | ||
| Automatically exposing command line interface commands as web services | ||
| Junaid Saiyed, Sunnyvale, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Apr. 02, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/816,983. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 715—249 [715/236; 715/239; 715/205] | 21 Claims |
| 1. A machine-implemented method, comprising:
parsing a man page that is associated with a specified command line interface (CLI) command;
based on the man page, automatically generating a description document that describes the syntax of the specified CLI command;
making the description document accessible to one or more remote systems to enable the one or more remote systems to create
remote invocation messages based on the description document; receiving a remote invocation message that represents an invocation
of the specified CLI command, wherein the remote invocation message was generated by at least one of the one or more remote
systems based on the description document; and executing the CLI command indicated in the remote invocation message.
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