Sap Ag

Isam Awad

Walter L Kahn

Nimrod Vishnia-Shabtai

Raja Nasrallah

Shachar Sagi

One or more embodiments enable a system and method for creation and runtime rendering of web-based user interface applications for a master data management applications. The system and method comprise acquiring metadata of a schema of a master data management database at initialization, the metadata identifying a plurality of schema elements; selecting a schema element of the plurality of schema elements in the schema metadata; identifying a set of all appropriate Web UI element options for the schema element; presenting to a UI designer a graphic user interface populated with the schema element and the set of all appropriate Web UI element options for the schema element; accepting from the UI designer a selected Web UI element from the set of all appropriate Web UI element options; generating a Web UI component definition comprising a link between the schema element and the selected Web UI element; storing the Web UI component definition related to the link in the master data management database.

System and method for runtime rendering of web-based user interfaces for master data management

Embodiments of the invention enable data that is synchronized between businesses to be displayed and interacted with by dynamically constructing graphical user interfaces to display the data. The graphical user interfaces are dynamically created via declarations that describe the data and how the data should be displayed along with the dependencies, validation and required characteristics of the data. The resulting dynamically created graphical user interfaces allow separate views of the data to be interacted with depending on the data pool that the data is intended for and a different data pool may be utilized by using a different declarative configuration at run time without recompiling and redistributing the application. The user interface files may be for example an XML file that may be parsed with any compliant schema based or DTD based XML parser. In at least one embodiment of the invention an N-tier architecture may be employed wherein a web server comprising Java Server Pages may utilize java class files that parse and construct the graphical user interface from an XML user interface configuration file. In this embodiment of the invention, HTML pages are output to a diverse array of computing devices capable of executing a HTML compliant browser. Another embodiment of the invention may utilize a standalone application utilizing the same java classes to construct java widgets instead of HTML widgets. Standalone applications may provide quicker responses than HTML applications since there are no round trips required for certain operations such as validation since the validation occurs directly in the application.

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