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Florian Rehfeld

Bare Said

Horst Schaude

Bernd Schmitt

Michael Neumann

Michael Meyringer

Toralf Grossmann

Dirk Henrich

Andreas Huppert

Matthias Schmitt

Ingo Bruss

Andreas F Morsch

Andreas Neumann

Michael Bauer

Silke Storch

Ashwin Reddy Yeddula

Joachim Puteick

Martin Rogge

Hendrik Geipel

Andrea Pluemper

Kai-Uwe Pielka

Stefan Miller

Klaus Bahr

Christoph P Vigelius

Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a services architecture design that provides enterprise services having foundation layer functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.

Foundation layer for services based enterprise software architecture

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a framework for managing software components. The framework uses a framework state model with model state transitions and implements one or more interfaces. Each component implements a respective component state model that is a projection of the framework state model and one or more of the interfaces. Each component implements operations to perform state transitions supported by the component. The framework can use the interfaces to cause components to perform component operations and to provide component state information to the framework. The interfaces define methods usable to determine a current state of a component, determine available state transitions for the current state, and direct the component to perform an available state transition. The available state transitions are one or more of the allowable state transitions that are implemented by the selected component for the current state.

Framework for managing components

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Heidelberg, Germany

Florian Rehfeld