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Felix Wente

Martin Hartig

Frank Stienhans

Thomas Fiedler

Reiner P Hammerich

Georg Wilhelm

Frank Seeger

Thomas Reiss

Jutta Bindewald

Ralf Irrgang

The description includes methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for detecting and handling changes to back-end systems. Configuration data for a pattern is received. The pattern includes a predefined arrangement of user interface elements and specifies predefined actions that can be performed using the user interface elements. The configuration data includes a first version identification and specifies associations between one or more of the user interface elements and one or more entities in a back-end system. The back-end system is accessed and a second version identification is obtained. If the first version identification does not match the second version identification, the configuration data is modified based on information about the back-end system.

Detecting and handling changes to back-end systems

A system may be customized by adding one or more software objects without detailed knowledge of the data model or the programming techniques used in the system. A user interface may be developed to guide the user to define a particular type of extension for one or more systems. The user-entered extension definition and a series of generic templates may be used to generate the particular objects to be added to each system.

Software customization objects for programming extensions associated with a computer system

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