Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael Gall

Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan

Arthur Greef

Lars Dragheim Blaaberg

Ahmad Mahdi El Husseini

Jeffrey Anderson

John Healy

Ronald H Schulz

Manoj Swaminathan

David Reinhold

Ganapathi Subramanian Sadasivam

Henrik Jakobsen

Data type configuration data is expressed and deployed to a database system to obtain a relational representation of the data types in addition to the compile code representation. Users or developers extend the data types by adding data to the relational representation, and the runtime environment operates off of the relational representation. Because the data types are extended (such as by creating new entities) using the data type tables in the relational representation, the extensions obtain the benefits of the type checking performed at compile time.

Extensible and queryable strong types

Some database tables include a relational field, where a record of the table stores a foreign-key reference value that identifies a related record of a second table. While fulfilling a request comprising a query over the database, the system may identify a context of the request, wherein the context is supplemental to the query, and wherein the context relates to the relational field. For example, a security policy may permit a requester to query the first table, but restrict the requester from accessing the second table that the relational field of the first table references, where dereferencing the relational field may cause unexpected results. Instead, the system may evaluate the context of the request, and may fulfill the request based on the context by providing a response that substitutes, for the value that references the second table, a substitute value that does not reference the second table.

Reconciling foreign key references and table security policies

An event subscriber subscribes to an event. When the event occurs, the publisher calls into a framework to look for subscriber attributes on program entities and raises the event with program entities that contain the correct attributes.

Subscriber-based event subscription

A source document framework for accounting systems is described. An apparatus may comprise an accounting application arranged for execution by the processor circuit, the ERP application comprising a source document framework component arranged to create a new source document type to add to heterogeneous source document types, and a source document process component arranged to process source documents of the heterogeneous source document types, with at least one of the heterogeneous source document types including a previous source document type arranged for use with process logic specific to the previous source document type, and process one or more source documents of the new source document type with the process logic specific to the previous source document type. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Source document framework for accounting systems

An object oriented application framework is provided in which base classes are decoupled from derived classes by using attributes. Relationships between derived classes and attributes can be generated, and derive classes can be statically or dynamically instantiated at run time. By decoupling the base class from derived classes using instances of such attributes, a developer does not modify computer program code defining the base class when adding customized extensions to that base class. The framework includes a class factory that uses instances of attributes associated with elements to derive, at run time, extension classes. The attributes can be specified at run time to specify or to alter the run time behavior of the application. This framework also allows the application to conditionally instantiate an element based on its attributes.

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Michael Gall