1362 results about "Business object" patented technology

A system, method, and article of manufacture are provided for retrieving multiple business objects across a network in one access operation. A business object and a plurality of remaining objects are provided on a persistent store. Upon receiving a request for the business object, it is established which of the remaining objects are related to the business object. The related objects and the business object are retrieved from the persistent store in one operation and it is determined how the retrieved related objects relate to the business object and each other. A graph of relationships of the business and related objects is instantiated in memory.

The present invention provides a solution to the needs described above through an improved method and apparatus for an improved security system mechanism in a business applications management system platform. The security management system partitions a number of business objects into a number of hierarchical domains. A security list is then created and configured to grant a member the right to perform a security operation on the business object located within the hierarchical domain. The security list is created by adding the security operation to the security list, applying the security operation to one of the multiple domains, and adding members to the security list.

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 hierarchal data management system for a storage device includes an entity relationship discover to generate meta data from a business object, a file manager to create a partition based on the metadata, a data mover to generate a logical partitioning key and to store the logical partitioning key in the metadata for the partition. The file manager includes a data management policy to define a data class and a storage policy to map the data class to the storage device to form a partition table.

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for generating class specifications for an object-oriented application that accesses a hierarchical database. The class specifications are generated using a command line interface of a class definition tool. A database description and a record layout associated with the hierarchical database are captured and associated to define a specification for the database. Class definitions are then generated from the database specification, wherein the class definitions are instantiated as objects in the objects framework that encapsulate data retrieved from the database.

A database conversion engine comprising a method and system to convert business information residing on one system to another system. A generic, extensible, scalable conversion engine may perform conversion of source data to target data as per mapping instructions/specifications, target schema specifications, and a source extract format specification without the need for code changes to the engine itself for subsequent conversions. A scheduler component may implement a scalable architecture capable of voluminous data crunching operations. Multi-level validation of the incoming source, data may also be provided by the system. A mechanism may provide data feeds to third-party systems as a part of business data conversion. An English-like, XML-based (extensible markup language), user-friendly, extensible data markup language may be further provided to specify the mapping instructions directly or via a GUI (graphical user interface). The system and method employs a business-centric approach to data conversion that determines the basic business object that is the building block of a given conversion. This approach facilitates identification of basic minimum required data for conversion leading to efficiencies in volume of data, performance, validations, reusability, and conversion turnover time.

A system for making computing applications aware of business events. The system can consist of an enterprise integration layer that automatically publishes business events and a messaging system that automatically subscribes to business events and makes the computing applications aware of the business events. The enterprise integration layer can include a set of client access interfaces, a business object server, and a set of adapters. The interfaces transform data from the format of a front-office application to a common data format. The business object server performs object assembly and disassembly, caching and synchronization, and service invocation functions. The adapters transform business objects into data requests compatible with a back-office system. The enterprise integration layer can also include an enterprise object model to standardize business objects, a rules engine to define and store rules regarding data and events, and a business event repository to contain definitions of business events.

A system and method are provided for the structured, rapid development and deployment of software components that together, would constitute a robust multi-tiered enterprise software application. Four sub-components are provided for handling various aspects of the business objects. A client framework is used to interact with client users and client software processes. A database framework is used to handle data retention and search functions. An external framework is used to interact with software processes that are outside the gambit of the present system. Finally, a business framework is used to operate the business objects themselves. The business framework can be configured under the services of a transaction server.

The Smart Generator of the present invention allows the designer/developer/user to model the EJB components in a natural way without being concerned with implementation-specific details. The developer models the business objects using a UML drawing tool and the Smart Generator creates a set of classes that implements these objects with reference to the Enterprise JavaBeans specification. That is, the Smart Generator automatically create access methods and handling containment of references from the UML diagram.

A framework (200, 300) for a composite application, the framework (200, 300) including: an object access layer (210, 330) operable to exchange data with a plurality of enterprise base systems (290a, b . . . z, 390a, b . . . z) and to present the data to a composite application through a uniform interface; a business object modelling layer (146, 410) including a business object modeller (146, 410) operable to provide a user interface for constructing a business object; the framework (200, 300) further including: a service layer (220, 340) operable to provide services to the composite application, wherein the service layer (220, 340) includes a collaboration services module (344) operable to provide a plurality of collaboration services to the composite application, wherein the object modelling layer (146, 410) is operable to directly link at least one of the plurality of collaboration services associated with the business object to the business object.

Embodiments of the present invention provide an ad-hoc query engine. The ad-hoc query engine comprises a query management module, a metadata module, a data cache module and a viewer module. The query management module receives a query request from a client device. The query request is specified in terms of a plurality of business objects. The query management module utilizes the metadata module to translate the business objects into a structured query language statement as a function of the content of the data cache module. The SQL statement comprises a plurality of aggregation. The query management module dynamically causes each aggregation to be re-directed to execute against the content of the data cache module, when the aggregation is locally or linearly computable from said content of said data cache module. The query management utilizes the viewer module to generate a report as a function of the results of the executed SQL statement.

A service-oriented architecture can include a service provider comprising a plurality of service objects, each service object comprising a self-describing, self-contained, platform independent, modular unit of application logic. The service oriented architecture further includes a service object among the plurality of service objects that is a service implementation having a pre-ordained message processing system. The service implementation can respond to client requests at different levels of granularity and can use a common transfer object message format that separates a business object into its constituent parts. The common set of operations can include at least the Read, Create, Update, Delete, and Execute functions.

The invention discloses a code automatic generation method used for constructing a code automatic generation device, comprising a data layer, a component layer, a process layer, a control layer and a user interface layer, wherein, the five-layer structure is divided in accordance with functions, and every layer is independent and creates a corresponding processing model to complete data processing, component extraction, flow processing, function control and user interface processing. At the same time, a code template is created based on certain rules, and different processing codes are formed for different business objects. Based on the five-layer model and the code template, a code generating engine controls and calls the model of layers and the code template, which cooperate to complete the code automatic generation process. The invention also discloses a code automatic generation device and system; by adopting the invention, the development efficiency, the reusability and the standardization of software can be enhanced and code quality is improved.

A method is disclosed for generating a consistent user interface for an HTML-based application program, without extensive coding of Java Server Pages and other elements. In one approach, business objects each define a user action for the application program, and metadata elements defining parameters for the user actions of the business object. A controller is communicatively coupled to one or more actions, widgets, and panels. A user request is received from a browser and dispatched to one or the actions. Using the actions, one or more parameter values are obtained from the business objects. The business object parameter values are associated with a widget selected from among the one or more widgets. The selected widget is associated with a panel selected from the one or more panels. An HTML user interface page that includes the selected panel is generated. The widgets represent properties of the business objects as HTML elements, automatically generate client-side executable code for performing data validation, and convert values received in users requests into programmatic objects of appropriate data types for use by the application program.

The invention relates to a system and method for realizing real-time data association in the big data environment. The system comprises an association scheduling framework, a distributed storage framework, a relational database and Redis servers, wherein the association scheduling framework is used for conducting intra-class association, inter association and concurrent scheduling on business objects; the distributed storage framework is used for establishing a connection pool for a master server of each Redis server, storing data related to current data association, sending cold data surpassing updating time limit and excessive data surpassing memory capacity limit to the relational database, and inquiring key values of intra-class association and inter association transferred to the relational database; the relational database is used for storing key values of intra-class association, key values of inter association, intra-class contexts and monitoring contexts. Through the adoption of the system and method, real-time association supporting mass streaming data can be realized, the demand of complex association in various conditions can be met, the model generality is high, and the application range is relatively wide.

Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for a computer based method for crawling application data from an application data store. The applications data store has business objects of an application stored thereon. The method may include identifying a first request for application data received from a search engine as a seed universal resource locator (URL). A crawlable definition for the identified business object is accessed, the crawlable definition including a query selecting one or more attributes of the business object. Moreover, the method can include sending the query to the application data store and receiving query results in response thereto. Additionally, the method can include forming a crawlable document which includes the retrieved results of the business object.

A system and method for updating a business object, where the business object is distributed across multiple computing systems. One of the computing systems is designated as a master or principal computing system. Each copy of the business object includes an update counter, which may be updated only by the master. Changes to the business object may be received from a subordinate computing system only when the value of the update counter at the subordinate is equal to the value of the update counter at the master. Embodiments of the invention permit the controlled manipulation of objects that are distributed across multiple computing systems. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention may be implemented with little or no modification to existing applications, each of which may employ very different data record locking mechanisms.

A development system with methodology for run-time restoration of UML model from program code is described. In one embodiment, for example, in a computer system, an improved method is described for developing and executing an application, the method comprises steps of: creating a model describing business objects and rules of the application; creating source code for the application, including representing the model within the source code itself; compiling the source code into an executable application; running the executable application on a target computer in conjunction with a run-time framework that provides services to the executable application; and while the executable application is running, reconstructing the model from the executable application and making it available to the run-time framework.

An apparatus, system and method are provided for generating relationships between client objects, business objects, external objects, and a persistence mechanism such as a database that model an enterprise application. The apparatus and system are thus a set of tools that can be used by a developer or other user to facilitate the development of enterprise business applications. The database tool generates code for correlating business, client, external, and other specifications. Object inheritance, collections, and other object-related issues are accommodated by the present invention. A deployment tool performs all of the logical steps necessary to move code (or binaries) from one environment to another, such as from a development environment to a production environment. Finally, a proxy tool generates one or more proxies and other handler objects.

A computer-implemented method for processing information includes collecting data objects from one or more data repositories, the data objects having respective properties, which identify the data objects. The properties of the collected data objects are analyzed in order to derive respective identifiers corresponding to the data objects. A text string that matches one of the identifiers of a data object is identified within a context in a document. Responsively to the context, an indication that the identified text string is a valid instance of the data object is generated, and the document is processed responsively to the indication.