Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ashok Srinivasan

Vinod Kumar

Jeff Comstock

Michael Merz

Yuanji Wang

Xuqing Zhang

David Pokluda

Alexander N Samoylenko

Rohit Kapoor

Described herein are various technologies pertaining to integrating account identifier (e.g., card provider(s)) into a digitization system, for example, without requiring changes to a client application on a user device (e.g., smart phone). An extensible account identifier abstraction system is provided that stores data according to a unified data model and is accessible to the user device via unified interface(s). The extensible abstraction system includes one or more plugin modules/provider relay plugin(s) that convert call(s) to the unified interface(s) and data stored according to the unified data model into provider-specific call(s) with data formatted according to a provider-specific schema.

Account identifier digitization abstraction

A system and method for processing messages in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is provided. A processing service generates a snapshot of a message queue, which contains a plurality of messages to be processed by the ERP system. Each message has an associated conversation, identified by a unique combination of an endpoint, channel, and subconversation identifier. For each conversation, the processing service determines whether messages of the conversation are to be processed in serial or in parallel, based on the subconversation identifier of the conversation. When the messages of the conversation are to be processed in serial, a task is created to process the messages serially. Alternatively, when the messages of the conversation are to be processed in parallel, a task is created for each of the messages. The messages of each task are processed serially by the task, while each task is executed in parallel with other tasks.

Conversational parallelism for message processing

A system and method for generating application code and an external interface for a service class, in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is provided. The system receives a definition of a service class from a user via a user interface tool. The definition of the service class specifies a query for the service class and operations that are to be enabled for the service class. The system automatically generates application code for the service class, which enables the service class to be used by an internal endpoint of the ERP system. The application code is customizable by the user; the user may add additional operations to the service class. In addition, the system automatically generates an external interface for the service class, which enables the service class to be used by an external endpoint of the ERP system without needing knowledge of the application code.

Unified, configurable services stack for integration of enterprise applications

A test framework suited for use with distributed business applications allows developers to specify a test, or suite of tests, to be easily selected and executed. Execution of a test suite instantiates objects such as a test runner and a test result object that set up, activate, and observe a test cycle. Results may be forwarded to a variety of special-purpose listeners which evaluate variable and state changes and ultimately determine pass/fail metrics. Results from profilers may be used to determine code coverage for each of the tests performed by the suite. APIs allow integration of the test framework with other development processes such as a be source code management system. In one embodiment, new or changed source code may not be checked in until successfully passing a test cycle.

Test automation for business applications

For each of a set of business application classes on an application server, a web service class consisting of a separate web service method for each of a set of actions is generated. Each web service method contains a call to an interface web service method stored on a web server. The interface web service method is capable of calling a method on the application server. Once generated, the web service classes are compiled into an assembly and are stored on the web server.

Generating and binding web services to application components

A security model is provided that controls access to a secured application. Under the security model, a submitting user is authenticated when the user submits a message to have the application perform an action. The application is then used to determine if the submitting user is authorized to submit messages on behalf of a source endpoint stored in the message. A method in the application is then invoked to perform the action while impersonating a source endpoint user stored in the message.

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Ashok Srinivasan