Oracle International Corporation

Fernando Alurralde Iturri

Ariel Cohen

Tomas Alabes

Nicolas Damonte

Qing Zhong

Nicolas Laplume

Thomas Kauth

Pablo Schmid

Juan Manuel Allo Ron

Process flow is created that represents a process-based software application. User specified connector creation information for creating connectors is received. User specified element information are received for associating elements with the process flow. One of the elements is a service task, and a connector is selected and configured from the connectors. The process-based software application is executed in a first computing environment. Interactions between the process-based software application and the connector framework are provided during the executing of the process-based software application in the first computing environment. The process-based software application is executed in a second computing environment. The process-based software application does not interact with the connector framework during the executing of the process-based software application in the second computing environment.

Executing a process-based software application in a first computing environment and a second computing environment

Resource-to-operation pairs are received at a user interface. The resource-to-operation pairs are stored in a model abstraction as a flat structure. The resource-to-operation pairs in the flat structure are converted into Representational State Transfer (REST) connectors. The REST connectors are encoded in a conventional interface description language. The REST connectors are stored in webpage code. A request is received at the webpage code from the client system for a service of a process step of the process-based software application. A REST connector in the webpage code translates the request to a message that conforms with the service. A response from the service is received at the webpage code. The response from the service is processed at the webpage code. Data retrieved by the processing of the response is accessed via a browser located at the client system.

Providing communication between a client system and a process-based software application

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein are systems and methods for use with business process management (BPM) systems or environments, including software development tools for developing software applications that are associated with business processes (business process software applications, business process applications, process applications, or processes). In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a column-based process editor and graphical user interface, that can utilize a column-based format to model and display a process, for example a dynamic process, which can subsequently be deployed and executed within the system or environment. For example, the column-based process editor and graphical user interface can include various graphical elements to indicate configured properties of artifacts of a dynamic process. Interaction with the graphical elements enables users to review, edit, and/or remove particular properties associated with the dynamic process.

System and method for software development including column-based process editor

Implementations generally relate to providing process modes. In some implementations, a method includes receiving view descriptors at a client device, where the view descriptors define how a process model is rendered and define how the process model behaves when rendered. The method further includes storing the view descriptors at the client device. The method further includes receiving, at the client device, a process mode selection from a user, where the process mode selection selects a process mode of a plurality of process modes, and where the selected process mode is associated with a set of the view descriptors. The method further includes retrieving the process model from a server. The method further includes applying the process model at the client device based on the set of the view descriptors associated with the selected process mode.

Inversion of control framework for multiple behaviors on top of a process

An example system and method provides an enhancement to a software editor, enabling a user (e.g., developer) to visualize a REST API (also called a REST service herein) as a list of resources presented in a flat structure, i.e., a simple list of resources containing operations. The software editor may be a fully JS/HTML/CSS (JavaScript, HyperText Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheets) compliant editor that lets the user define connectors to REST API's in an easy and fluid way. Furthermore, the editor facilitates creation of a connector to the REST API in a generic fashion, without requiring user knowledge of any particular interface or description language, such as RAML, YAML, WADL, etc. The user, e.g., developer, may simply define resources and corresponding operations to thereby enable the editor to automatically generate a corresponding connector to the REST API. The enhanced software editor also facilitates creation of business objects from a JSON instance or schema.

Automatically generating an interface description in an interface description language

An example system and method facilitates developing and interacting with connectors that represent or are associated with services or interfaces to be implemented in a computing environment. The example system includes a connector editor backed by a connectors framework that specializes and links to the specific editor and dialogs that enables a developer to customize and configure any of plural available connectors for a specific purpose (e.g., to connect a process step to a particular type of web service). Furthermore, the connectors framework and associated editor(s) enable all of the connectors of available connector types to be configured using the same life cycle and to be automatically parameterized to use different data when running on the different environments, e.g., different test and production environments.

Connectors framework

Generic-flat structure rest API editor

Inversion of control framework for multiple behaviors of a process

Implementations generally relate to system integration. In some implementations, a method includes receiving, at an integration layer of a client device, process information from a JavaScript-based user interface (UI) development framework on the client device, where the process information includes command information and event information that is structured in a JavaScript format, where the process information enables one or more webpages to be rendered in a browser, and where the UI development framework is managed by a Java-based application development framework (ADF) on the client device. The method further includes determining a predetermined communication phase of the ADF, where the ADF communicates with a server during the predetermined communication phase. The method further includes sending the process information to the ADF based on the predetermined communication phase of the ADF, where the ADF converts the process information from the JavaScript format into an extensible markup language (XML) format and sends the process information in the XML format to the server.

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