An apparatus for and method of processing service requests provided by a
user at a standard Internet work station. The service requests are
received by the server and routed to a gateway. The gateway has the
capability to convert the service request to a format acceptable by an
enterprise server without the need of a view buffer. Thus, the conversion
does not require a priori notification concerning the data formats
employed. The output of the gateway is coupled through a corresponding
one of a number of connectors to the end service provider for honoring.
The response is transferred from the service provider to the appropriate
connector to be formatted for the requesting gateway. The response is
converted by the original adapter to an HTML or XML message for transfer
back to the requester via the Internet.