Embodiments of the present invention improve information exchange, and in particular, the exchange of data objects between different software systems. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of exchanging information comprising receiving a first transport request, the transport request comprising one or more first transport attributes, wherein the one or more first transport attributes are associated with a first data object, storing the one or more first transport attributes and the first data object or a reference to the first data object in a repository, receiving a second transport request, the second transport request comprising one or more second transport attributes, and executing an algorithm for generating a response to the second transport request based on the first or second transport attributes.
