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A specification language allows a user to define platform-independent user interface panels without detailed knowledge of complex computer programming languages. The specification language is referred to herein as a Panel Definition Markup Language (PDML), which defines tags that are used in similar fashion to those defined in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), that allow a user to specify the exact location of components displayed in the panel. A graphical editor allows the creation and modification of platform-independent user interface panels without programming directly in the specification language. A conversion tool may be used to convert platform-specific user interface panels to corresponding platform-independent user interface panels. A help generator tool also facilitates the generation of context-sensitive help for a user interface panel.

System and method for generating Web Services using a Web Services Structured Methodology. One embodiment may be implemented as a Web Services architecture design mechanism. Lifecycles of the Web Services design process may include vision and strategy, architecture design, development, integration, and deployment. In one embodiment, the Web Services architecture design mechanism may implement a structured methodology design process for Web Services. One embodiment may include a reusable Web Services design pattern catalog and a mechanism for maintaining and updating the catalog and for using the catalog to apply design patterns when designing and implementing Web Services. One embodiment may be used for Enterprise And Cross-Enterprise Integration of Web Services. One embodiment may be used for Legacy Mainframe Integration and Interoperability with Web Services.

A system and method for developing, deploying, managing and monitoring a web application in a single environment is disclosed herein. The single environment is preferably an integrated development environment (“IDE”). The system and method preferably allows for deployment to a cloud provider, and preferably allows for use of Web resources from multiple cloud providers. One preferred IDE is the APTANA® STUDIO IDE. An operator can use a user interface to access the integrated development environment and the cloud manager over the network, specifically the Internet.

Method for automatically generating an implementation of input and output container reusable parts for a process model managed and executed by at least one computer system. The method of generating uses the specification of a process model extended by specifications associating the process model to a reusable part environment outside the workflow process environment and generates an implementation of said input and output containers as reusable parts residing within said reusable parts environment. The method of generating comprises an analysis of the specifications of said process model. Based on this analysis the method generates the associated input container reusable parts and associated output container reusable parts as implementations of said input and output containers.

The preferred embodiment provides a system and method for automatically generating enterprise software applications with minimal level of manual coding. The preferred embodiment provide a graphical design tool that models an application using Unified Model Language (UML), validate the UML model, and automatically generate deployable application. The preferred embodiment also provides a framework of libraries that the target application can be build from.

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for interacting with a user to define business rules in a declarative manner. The invention operates to display a rule set as an editable list of conditions and an editable list of actions, the conditions and actions being linked to each other by the combination of an editable list of if-values and an editable list of then-values, wherein if-values and then-values are explicitly linked to each other, conditions and if-values are explicitly linked to each other, and then-values and actions are explicitly linked to each other in the displayed lists.

The disclosure herein relates to systems and methods for creating or updating applications using website content. An input may be received that identifies website content to be utilized in creating or updating an application. One or more application modules may to be derived from the website content. The website content may be analyzed in accordance with a rule set to detect website features associated with the website. The website features may be incorporated into the one or more application modules. The application modules may then be compiled into an application such as a mobile application or HTML 5 application.

A system may receive a request to derive an output variable from a source variable. The request may include proposed logic to derive the output variable from the source variable. The system may then compare the proposed logic to existing logic to determine the proposed logic is new. In response to the proposed logic being new, the system may generate transformation code configured to execute the proposed logic. The system may further schedule the transformation code for execution at a predetermined time, and then execute the transformation code to generate data for the output variable.

A selected scenario of a design ICD document for an integrated enterprise is validated by examining each IDL call of each sequence diagram forming part of the selected scenario. A list of data attributes contained in one or more of the IDL calls are generated and each IDL call associated therewith is generated. A physical location to which each such IDL call is mapped is then associated with the IDL call. By analyzing the IDL calls and associated physical locations on a data attribute-by-data attribute basis, inconsistencies in the physical mapping of the data attributes to the databases forming an IIS for the integrated enterprise may be identified and subsequently corrected.

A device for modeling an integrated enterprise includes a first tool for constructing a model of the integrated enterprise and a second tool which validates compliance of documents constructed by the first tool with a set of standards. The documents which may be constructed by the first tool include an analysis interface control document (“ICD”) and a design ICD document. The second tool may then be used to selectively compare either the analysis ICD or the design ICD with selected ICD standards and generate an analysis ICD document standards exception report and a design ICD document standards exception report, respectively, which lists each variation of the analysis and design ICD documents from the selected ICD standards. The analysis and / or design ICD standards exception reports may subsequently be used as guides to correct errors in the analysis and / or design ICD documents causing the exceptions.

Methods and systems are disclosed for developing a software application through requirements specification, design, effort estimation, assigning and tracking work items, development, testing, collaboration and project management. The system is structured as an integrated software development system allowing for structured, systematic and user friendly set up of requirements specification (including workflow, user interface, business rules and integrations), technical design for UI features and integrations using design patterns, automated effort estimation, automated story card and task creation. The system also provides a novel, audio-video playback capability for workflow visualization. Further, the system provides visual depiction of defects and changed items side-by-side with requirements, as well as predictive modeling of defects that allows for forecasting of defect completion rate. In the preferred embodiment, the system is delivered as a multi-tenant Software as a Service.

Business concept definitions may be utilized with software applications, components, tools, and system software. The business concepts definitions are each associated with archetypal definitions, which may also be known as innate concepts. These archetypal definitions may include a person, an organization, a system, a place, an activity, a document, a conceptual object, a physical object, and a category. The business concept definitions may also be represented by an image on a user interface, where the images may be selectable by a user. These business concept definitions may be manipulated and modified. Indeed, certain relationships may be denoted between business concept definitions through the positioning of the images on a user interface. Because these business concept definitions are associated with archetypal definitions, which may be intuitive for users, application definitions using these business concept definitions may be easily created by a user without programming skills.

A business application development environment and a corresponding business application execution environment is disclosed. A graphical user interface based Workflow Designer allows a user to easily create business applications graphically. The business applications are converted into the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML). Existing BPML applications may also be edited with the graphical user interface BMPL designer of the present invention. Created business applications (that are represented in BPML) can then be hosted on any XML based web services server system. Business applications generally operate on business objects. The objects allow for fields to include functions that combine other fields. Once an application has been designed, the BPML code may be executed using a BPML execution engine. The BPML execution engine executes the BPML based applications. One embodiment interprets BPML applications with an interpreter in the execution engine. Another embodiment compiles the BPML applications into directly executable code.

A method, system and computer program product provide an implementation of software. A control flow of a software component is constructed based on a specification model. In various embodiments, the specification model comprises at least one input and at least one requirement referencing the at least one input. At least a partial implementation of the software component is generated based on the control flow and the at least one input and the at least one requirement of the specification model. In some embodiments, the specification model further comprises at least one output, and the at least a partial implementation of the software component is also based on the at least one output.

A system and methodology for providing a Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagram of a program for display in a graphical user interface of a development system is described. Relationships between a plurality of files of a program are determined using a compiler. When a request for display of a UML diagram is received, a UML diagram of the currently selected file is generated based upon the determined relationships between the currently selected file and other files of the program. The UML diagram displayed in the graphical user interface enables a user to navigate to a particular file of the program by selecting one of the nodes of the UML diagram. The system enables a user to view source code or a UML diagram of a particular component displayed in the UML diagram.

A distributed processing system delegates the allocation and control of computing tasks to intelligent agent applications running on computing resources. This provides flexible control, efficient allocation, scalability, and simple adaptation of applications to the distributed processing system. The distributed processing system includes an agent, a server, and application programmer interfaces. The agent is run on or associated with any computer system contributing computing resources to the distributed processing system. The agents collect information about associated computing resources to assess their abilities to perform available computing tasks. Based on these assessments, agents request jobs from the server. The server assigns computing tasks to computing resources based on the job requests received from associated agents. Agents manage the execution of tasks on their associated computing resources and return results as specified by jobs. Agents can manage the execution of any type of application, including applications not specifically developed for distributed processing environments.

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with certain principles related to the present invention enable a computing system to layer the packaging and deployment of a web service endpoint on a standard servlet component model. To define a web service endpoint, the computing system may develop a service endpoint class that implements a configured service endpoint interface. The interface and endpoint class may be packaged by the computing system into an archive file. The computing system may use the information stored in the archive file to define the service endpoint modify the archive file with class information associated with the defined service endpoint. The modified archive file may be deployed on a container operating within the computing system. Further, the computing system may produce a WSDL based description of the defined service endpoint and export the document such that a remote client may use the information contained in the document to locate and remotely invoke methods on the defined service endpoint.

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for interacting with a user to define business rules in a declarative manner. The invention operates to display a set of business rules as editable conditions and editable actions, the conditions and the actions being linked to each other by a combination of editable if-values and editable then-values.

System and method for programmatically generating a graphical program in response to state diagram information. The state diagram information specifies a plurality of states and state transitions. A graphical program generation program (GPG program), receives the state diagram information and automatically, i.e., programmatically, generates a graphical program (or graphical program portion) based on the state diagram information. The GPG program automatically includes graphical source code in a block diagram of the graphical program, which serves as a framework of the states specified by the state diagram information and the state transitions, with various “placeholders” or “containers” enabling the user to easily fill in the graphical program with source code specifying execution instructions for each state and Boolean conditions for each state transition. The specific graphical source code automatically generated depends on programming features supported by a particular graphical programming development environment with which the graphical program is associated.

Representing a componentized workflow model via a declarative markup language. Each step of the workflow is modeled as an activity that has metadata to describe design time aspects, compile time aspects, and runtime aspects of the workflow step. A user selects and arranges the activities to create the workflow via user interfaces or application programming interfaces. The metadata associated with each of the activities in the workflow is collected to create a persistent representation of the workflow. Users extend the workflow model by authoring custom activities.

In a particular embodiment, configuration patterns are used to provide solutions to configuration problems that repetitively occur. Use of configuration patterns in connection with a configuration model has many benefits. A configuration patterns is a parameterized or otherwise easily extensible solution to that problem, such that the solution is reusable by modifying the parameters of the pattern or extending the pattern in pre-defined ways. Configuration patterns are inherently data-driven and provide improved maintenance for data and logic as well as reduced programming effort. Configuration patterns can be reused within and across different product families and can be specialized from other patterns. Thus, the use of configuration patterns facilitates reduced maintenance cost and reduced programming effort for product configuration data and logic systems.

A migration set list generator specifies a physical topology of a deployed software solution, wherein the software solution comprises a plurality of software components and data associated with said plurality of software components integrated into a single entity. The migration set list generator specifies at least one solution change to the deployed software solution to meet at least one business requirement and specifies at least one migration strategy for migrating the deployed software solution, wherein the at least one migration strategy comprises at least one of a product level strategy specified for a particular software component of the plurality of software components and at least one solution level strategy specified for the plurality of software components, wherein the product level strategy overrides the solution level strategy for the particular software component. The migration set list generator generates a plurality of migration tasks for making the at least one solution change to the deployed software solution specified in the physical topology based on the at least one migration strategy and generates a recommended physical topology yielded for the software solution if the physical topology is updated according to the plurality of migration tasks.

Systems and methods are provide for optimizing the iOS application build process to dramatically reduce build times for highly templated mobile applications. A request to build a first application developed using an application development framework can cause one or more binary artifacts of a second application compiled using a build toolkit to be determined. Declarative information associated with the one or more binary artifacts of the second application can be then modified using metadata associated with the first application. The metadata configures one or more components included in the first application. The first application can then be built to target a mobile device using the one or more binary artifacts of the second application and the modified declarative information.

A system and method for estimating a metric of a proposed product from a document describing the product in an arbitrary degree of detail provides accuracy comparable to a function point assessment of a fully detailed document by parsing a document into a plurality of lines in an outline form and assigning a hierarchy to each line. Values or weights are determined for each of a relatively small plurality of key words in accordance with the key word and the hierarchy level of the line in the parsed document in which the key word is found. An adjustment is made based on a category of the key word such as nouns and verbs and the hierarchy level of the lines as compared with the number of hierarchy levels found in the document. Further adjustments may be made for subject matter domain of the product and the source or author of the document.

Modifying a componentized workflow model during execution of the workflow. Each step of the workflow is modeled as an activity that has metadata to describe design time aspects, compile time aspects, and runtime aspects of the workflow step. A user selects and arranges the activities to create the workflow via user interfaces or application programming interfaces. Metadata is associated with each of the activities in the workflow. During execution of the workflow, the user modifies the metadata to affect execution of the workflow without recompiling the workflow.

Selecting and applying a behavioral component to a portion of a componentized workflow. The behavioral component defines error and exception handling, among other concerns, to the portion of the workflow selected by a user. During execution of the workflow, the behavioral components executes responsive to output from the selected portion of the workflow.

A workflow code generator for generating executable code for multi-channel and / or multi-modal applications. The code generator may include a parser for reading application input files and creating internal representations of declarative statements within the input files. The code generator may further include a model analyzer, which processes the internal model to detect errors, perform optimization, and prepare for outputting the result. The code generator uses a symbol or mapping table for storing references to resources that have been used by the input application. The code generator assigns code fragments to object patterns, resolves data object references by referring to mapping table, and traverses the objects and emits code assigned to the objects.