International Business Machines Corporation

Barbara Jane McKee

David Lars Ehnebuske

Keith A Varga

Laura K Bell

Thanh-Nha Nguyen

A method and apparatus for identifying decision points in Business Objects and classifying business rules that are applicable to the decision points. Business Objects are created which are decorated with business rules, either manually or programmatically. Control Points are used to represent the named decision points or triggers within the behavior of the Business Objects. The Control Points are visually exposed to business analysts to allow the examination of the business rules attached to the various Control Points. The business analysts are permitted to manually attach or detach business rules associated with the Control Points. A system can programmatically decide which rules to attach to a Control Point based on execution context.

Method and apparatus for identifying applicable business rules

A system for registering applications for use with a graphic user interface which includes providing registration information for the applications. The registration information includes class identifiers and templates. The templates identify object classes. Each of the class identifiers and each of the templates correspond to a particular application, and the system utilizes templates for registering applications and may utilize subprograms belonging to the graphic user interface to register applications. The system further includes initiating subprograms utilized while registering an object class, if the graphic user interface is inactive. The system registers the object classes and the registration information associated with the applications with the graphic user interface, such that the graphic user interface recognizes the object classes and the registration information associated with the applications, allowing the applications to be initiated through templates presented as icons in the graphic user interface. The system also includes automatically terminating the subprograms utilized while registering the object classes in response to completion of the registration.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Barbara Jane McKee