Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kevin Whittenberger

Michaeljon Miller

Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie

Michael James Ott

Alexander M Tkatch

Sonja Jackson

Jason Ladwig

Jagan M Peri

Rodion Degtyar

Navin Ishwar Thadani

Jigar Thakkar

Andrey A Zaytsev

Xinguang Albert Chen

Youg Lu

Mohammad Mushtaque Silat

Sudhir Nanda

A state management sub-system that assists in transmitting and processing documents and messages between two applications in a sequentially correct order through an integration server is disclosed. The state management subsystem analyzes the message and enters state information about the message into a state management table. Once the message is transformed the state management subsystem check the status of the message in the state management table, and checks all waiting parameters. Depending on the status of the check, the state management subsystem changes the state of message in the table. Only when all messages have passed the waiting parameters check is a message posted to the destination system.

Document message state management engine

A method of extending the functionality of an API in a CRM program and system to implement the method is disclosed. The method may allow a user to use request and response messages to be communicated with a single interface that may be exposed as a CRM web service module to create new business logic and operations by extending previously defined classes.

Using messages to extend CRM functionality

A linking system that assists in managing the linking of entities contained in messages between two business applications is disclosed. The linking system also assists in updating entities between two business applications when an entity is updated in one application. The linking system takes each entity and places identifying information for the entity in a record in a first table. The system then creates in a record in a second table indicating that the two records in the first table are linked. The linking system also can remove links or records from the tables, and can return to a user a list of records that are linked together.

Entity linking system

An extensible architecture that allows the users to extend, change or replace the existing business logic of the business application is disclosed.

Modification of logic in an application

A metadata driven software development system provides various functionalities related to an entity of an application in the metadata format. Specifically, the system provides a set of base classes related to the entity and a set of methods and application programming interfaces for various operations to be performed on the entities in the metadata format. Defining such functionalities in the metadata format allows the system to dynamically generate XML messages matching any customized schema for that entity. Because such functionality is metadata driven, this system can be used with customized versions of the application without requiring any additional code or recompilation.

Method and apparatus for building metadata driven software development kit

A method of providing a user interface for mapping entities between a plurality of business applications in an integrated business solutions computing environment is provided. A first system specific assembly and first user interface configuration data is retrieved for a first entity. A second system specific assembly is retrieved for a second entity of a second application. A dynamic user interface is generated based upon the first system specific assembly, first user interface configuration data and second system specific assembly.

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Kevin Whittenberger