Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Jiangxiang Yang

Wing K Lee

Ivan K Chow

Dora Potluri

Denis Tsai

Yiqun Ye

The invention comprises methods and apparatus for implementing a trader service. The present invention involves creating a trader service, preferably compliant with the CORBA CosTrader Specification, where the trader service is arranged to store persistent information using a directory service. This aspect involves creating a storage mechanism comprising a directory service, preferably a directory service compliant with LDAP version 2, which is arranged to store the persistent information for the trader service. An additional embodiment may be implemented by creating a data store interface for interacting with the directory service, wherein such interaction comprises the use of protocol compliant with LDAP version 2.

Method and apparatus for implementing persistence in trader services associated with a computer system

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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Jiangxiang Yang