International Business Machines Corporation

Liang-Jie Zhang

Jai P Menon

James Sargent Lipscomb

Keeranoor G Kumar

Sih-Pin Subrina Chang

Tian-Jy Chao

Hung-Yang Chang

Jen-Yao Chung

Shu-Chun Jeane Chen

John Youssef Sayah

Yi-Min Chee

Arun Ramchandra

Jia Zhang

Santhosh Babu Kumaran

Jun-Jang Jeng

Ahamed Jalaldeen

Abdul Allam

Ali P Arsanjani

Yiming Ye

Lurng-Kuo Liu

Hong Cai

Qun Zhou

Haifei Li

Yu Long

Haiyan Wang, Legal Representative

Shu-Chen Jeane S Chen

Jun Zhu

Krishna Chaitanya Ratakonda

Jing Min Xu

Ying Li

Nianjun Zhou

Zhong Xian Li

Ephraim Feig

Fausto Bernardini

Edward Charles Snible

Naomi Meiko Mitsumori

Shun Xiang Yang

David B Flaxer

Henry C Chang

Jeane Shu-Chun Chen

Jose Gomes

Jeane S Chen

Rama Kalyani Tirumala Akkiraju

Ying Nan Zuo

Robert C Plotkin

Hung-yang (Henry) Chang

Fang Xing

Dingding Lu

Teresa Abdel-Hamid

Pooja Yadav

Eric H Hoffman

Shu-Chen Jeane Chen

Subrina Sih-Pin Chang

DingDing Lu

Nagaraj Chinni

Gopal Kittur

Sreedhar Rochan

Traceability management to align IT solution artifacts with business goals in a service oriented architecture environment is provided. A pattern matching framework is provided for generating patterns and transformation enablers for architectural artifacts based on specific business requirements. Patterns that are applicable to a selected set of artifacts or model are provided to an architect, who may then select a particular subset of the patterns to apply to the set of artifacts or model in the SOA solution design to speed up and simplify the design process. Providing applicable or candidate patterns for selection to the architect in the views reduces the possible ambiguity in architectural artifact-pattern matching and selection. These solution patterns may be used as a guide when configuring and linking architectural artifacts and models.

Traceability management for aligning solution artifacts with business goals in a service oriented architecture environment

Techniques are provided for automatically creating and using a transform to generate a document in a target format. The techniques include obtaining a source document, wherein the source document is in a structured format and wherein the source document comprises structured information from a domain-specific representation, creating a transform, wherein creating the transform comprises creating a specially-tagged version of the source document in the structured format, using a target application to create an output document in a target format with one or more corresponding tags, and applying an algorithm to automatically generate a transform, and using the transform to generate a version of the source document in a target format. Techniques are also provided for generating a database of one or more transforms.

Method for automatically creating transforms

Techniques are provided for representing and configuring flexible and extensible presentation patterns based on fine-grained architectural building blocks (ABBs). The techniques include defining ABBs, modeling the ABBs in a uniform manner, and creating at least one template using the ABBs, wherein the at least one template includes at least one of pre-configured static characteristics and user-specified service characteristics. In an embodiment of the invention, an exemplary method for designing and managing fine-grained ABBs can include identifying ABBs to compose an architecture for facilitating presentation and interaction between consumers and other elements in a solution, analyzing the ABBs to monitor computing resources used by individual ABBs, selecting a number of running instances of the ABBs based on (i) requests of a pertinent entity and (ii) available resources, and managing life-cycles of ABBs.

Method and apparatus for representing and configuring flexible and extensible presentation patterns

Techniques are provided for service-oriented (SOA) process decomposition and service modeling. In one aspect of the invention, the techniques include identifying meta-data entities, attributes of the meta-data entities and relationships between stereotypes of the meta-data model, managing the meta-data model for creating, modifying and removing modeling artifacts, and creating modeling templates from the meta-data model to facilitate addressing at least one need of industry-specific applications. In another aspect the invention, the techniques include packaging the method for SOA process decomposition and service modeling, facilitating lifecycle management of modeling assets, and facilitating maintenance of the modeling assets.

Method and apparatus for service-oriented architecture process decomposition and service modeling

A mechanism lets a service consumer add mediation metadata in a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message and lets a service provider perform server side mediation based on the pre-defined mediation metadata. A client side mediation engine is plugged into a client SOAP engine. When the client side mediation engine receives a request message from the client SOAP engine metadata is attached to a message header of a SOAP message and returned to the client SOAP engine. A server side mediation engine is plugged the server side mediation engine receives a SOAP message from the server SOAP engine, metadata is mapped with an appropriate adaptor and returned to the server SOAP engine.

Method and apparatus for metadata driven web service mediation

A service-oriented architecture for enterprise project management integrates business processes, human resources and project management within an enterprise or across the value chain network. A representation having direction and attributes is provided to show the dependencies between a business value layer and a project-portfolio layer, and between the project-portfolio layer and resources. The representation is mapped to a Web Services representation in UDDI, Web Services interfaces, and Web Services based business processes through rope hyper-linking.

Method and apparatus for using service representations to align information technology with the strategy of an enterprise

A method, system and apparatus for generating test data for web services testing load a selected file describing one or more web services operations into memory, select an operation specified in said loaded file, and identify one or more fields used in said operation. The one or more fields are customized and the customization is validated. Generation rules are configured and one or more variations of the fields are generated.

Method and apparatus of effective functional test data generation for web service testing

A method (and apparatus) for adapting an input parameter, for dynamically invoking target Web services, and for adapting output results, includes receiving an invocation request including an input parameter in a first format. A semantic information representation module MetaWSDL (Meta Web Service Description Language), wherein the MetaWSDL includes a universal XML (eXtended Markup Language) representation which includes semantic information of a Web service method signature, is retrieved from a memory. A MetaWSDL processor is invoked to adapt the input parameter to a second format using the retrieved MetaWSDL. The target Web services are dynamically invoked, using the adapted parameter in the second format, and the output result in the first format is adapted to the second format, using the MetaWSDL.

Method and apparatus of automatic method signature adaptation for dynamic web service invocation

A multi-media information system enables tracking of user interactions to media presentations. A content creation phase enables a creator to specify presentation events or user interactions that can be tracked. A token(s) is introduced into the content by the creator to represent each piece of information to be tracked. A deployment delivery phase delivers the presentation to a web page for a user experience phase and interaction. Trackable information is communicated by the user to the tracking server at different instances of time. Each pre-authored trackable information can be flagged to be 'real-time' or otherwise at the granularity of the token or at the granularity of each trackable context. When trackable information is not 'real-time', the information is put into one of several information clusters of different priority. When each cluster achieves a critical mass, the cluster moves to a ready state for transmission to the tracking server.

System and method for tracking user interactions and navigation during rich media presentations

A method is provided for designing and developing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution that comprises implementing a business process layer having a first set of architectural building blocks (ABBs) and configured to perform service composition and service decomposition; implementing a service component layer having a second set of ABBs and configured to perform service integration and service invocation; implementing a service layer having a third set of ABBs and configured to perform service discovery; and service aggregation; integrating the business process layer, the service component layer, and the service layer; and specifying a set of characteristics of the first, second, and third sets of ABBs to be reconfigurable based upon extensible rules.

Method and apparatus for the design and development of service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions

Method and apparatus for enabling enterprise project management with service oriented resource and using a process profiling framework

A method is provided for implementing data-driven QoS control in design and development of an SOA solution. The method comprises implementing a QoS layer having a first set of architectural building blocks (ABBs) and configured to specify a QoS requirement definition to be propagated through a set of components of the SOA solution to generate QoS data for controlling and managing QoS in a unified form; and implementing a data architecture layer having a second set of ABBs and configured to facilitate propagation of generated QoS data through the set of components in the SOA solution.

Method and apparatus for modeling and managing quality of service (QoS) in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment

An adaptive integration activity management framework for on demand business process integration provides a mechanism to enable easy integration of legacy and new applications. The framework minimizes the effort need to integrate a new application into an existing business process environment such that the new activity is a 'plug-in' into an action manager by implementing a standard adaptation layer. Activity integration is implemented in the principle of 'on-demand' because it is invoked as required, so the communication and collaboration between partners become much more flexible.

Method and apparatus of adaptive integration activity management for business application integration

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