Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Denis Tsai

Wing K Lee

Dora Potluri

Shrikant D Jannu

Ivan K Chow

Jiangxiang Yang

The present invention, known as the Middleware Brokering System, brokers messages between middleware computing products. Each middleware service can send data to the Middleware Brokering System in its native data format and programming syntax. The Middleware Brokering System converts the data transmitted from the different platforms into a standard format known as a structured event. Messages are then transmitted to and stored in an underlying, commercially available publish/subscribe engine. The Middleware Brokering System contains internal logic that determines whether any subscribers are interested in the messages. If an interested subscriber is found, the Middleware Brokering System retrieves the message from the publish/subscribe engine, converts the data from the structured event into the native format of the receiving application, and sends the message to the appropriate application.

Middleware brokering system

The present invention, known as the Middleware Brokering System Adapter, is a component useful with a Middleware Brokering System, which brokers messages between middleware computing products. Each middleware service can send data to and receive data from the Middleware Brokering System in its native data format and programming syntax. The Middleware Brokering System Adapter is a component of the Middleware Brokering System that transforms data messages from the native format of a middleware computing product or a mainframe computing system into a format known as a structured event and from a structured event into the native format of the middleware product or the mainframe system. In an embodiment of the invention, the Middleware Brokering System Adapter maps the fields of a Cobol copybook onto the fields of a structured event and the fields of a structured event onto the fields of a copybook. In an alternative embodiment, the Middleware Brokering System Adapter maps the fields of a Java Messaging Service MapMessage onto the fields of a structured event and the fields of a structured event onto the fields of a MapMessage.

Middleware brokering system adapter

The present invention, sometimes referred to as an Application Message Wrapper Generation Wizard or Wizard (for short), is a tool to help application developers map Cobol or Natural copybooks into a message command for an ASCII-based text messaging service. In this sense, the Wizard facilitates communication between client applications and server applications by allowing the client to use generic requests and allowing the Wizard generated files providing the correct protocol and syntax for communication with the destination server application. The Wizard generates Java classes that will mine/plant data a runtime between business objects and a message string that corresponds to the copybook's data structure, and vice versa. The Wizard recognizes different data types of copybook fields respectively, and converts them to/from ASCII. The Java classes generated by the Wizard also serve to abstract mainframe services so as to encapsulate ASCI text messaging system calls from the business layer by treating mainframe services as an ordinary operation on an object and so as to act as a layer than can serve to pave a path for migrating services away from a legacy environment. The generated Java code ensures efficient runtime performance for mining/plating of data. The present invention relates to the Wizard itself, the method of using it, the software system using the files generated by the Wizard and the method of using the generated software system.

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Denis Tsai