Message Evaluation Tool for XML Choreography Analysis

The patent introduces a message evaluator as an intermediary component that sits between the complex XML messaging system and the user. This evaluator monitors message exchanges, evaluates them against business rules, and presents simplified views of message flows. The intermediary handles the complexity of monitoring and evaluation internally while presenting a manageable interface to users, thus resolving the contradiction between representing complex scenarios and managing their monitoring complexity.

The patent extracts the monitoring and evaluation functionality from the core business process flow into a separate message evaluator component. By taking out the complex monitoring tasks into a dedicated evaluator that uses factors and keys to selectively monitor messages, the system reduces the management burden on users while maintaining the ability to handle complex business scenarios. The evaluator isolates the complexity of message monitoring from the business logic.

The patent implements partial monitoring by using selectively configured factors that determine which messages warrant evaluation. Instead of monitoring all messages equally, the system applies evaluation only to messages that match specific criteria defined by the factors and keys. This partial action approach maintains reliability for critical message exchanges while significantly reducing the time and computational resources required compared to comprehensive monitoring of all messages.

The message evaluator applies different monitoring intensities and evaluation criteria to different messages based on their local characteristics. By using keys generated from message attributes and factors that define evaluation criteria, the system tailors the monitoring approach to each message's specific context. This local quality approach ensures thorough evaluation of problematic messages while avoiding unnecessary analysis of normal messages, thus balancing completeness with efficiency.

The message evaluator serves as an intermediary that performs detailed payload and choreography analysis internally while presenting simplified fault information to users. It evaluates messages against business rules, analyzes inconsistencies in message exchanges, and presents the results in a manageable format. This intermediary approach maintains high measurement precision for fault isolation while reducing the difficulty of detecting and measuring issues by handling the complex analysis internally.

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the message evaluator continuously monitors message exchanges, evaluates them against defined factors and keys, and provides feedback on inconsistencies and faults. This feedback loop enables precise fault isolation by comparing actual message exchanges against expected behavior defined by business rules, while the automated nature of the feedback reduces the difficulty of detecting and measuring issues that would be cumbersome to identify manually.