International Business Machines Corporation

Piotr Przybylski

Michael Beisiegel

John Henry Green

Jean-Sebastien Michel Delfino

Travis Eli Nelson

Suraksha Vidyarthi

John Wright Stephenson

Jun Jie Nan

Xiang Cai

Paul Stanley

Harold Jeffrey Gartner

Srikanth Bhattiprolu

Rui Liang

Norman K W Seto

Corville O Allen

Philip Ivor Wakelin

Martin Paul Nally

Bryan Eric Aupperle

Zhaohui Feng

Joel Alan Farrell

Hesham Ezzat Fahmy

Vernon Maurice Green

Simon A J Holdsworth

Sascha Baumeister

Ernest Wing Mah

Ilene Ruth Seelemann

Sandeep K Minocha

Amy Thatcher Mollin

Elizabeth Catherine Savoie

A method for deploying a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment environment model and a method for modifying a deployed SOA deployment environment model. In the deploying method, deployment of the SOA deployment environment model is realized by acquiring a task list including tasks for deploying elements of the model, associating the tasks in the task list with the elements, and executing the tasks to deploy the elements of the model. In the modifying method, modification of the SOA deployment environment model is realized by acquiring a task list including tasks for modifying elements of the model, associating the tasks in the task list with the elements, and executing the tasks to modify the elements. Thus, the deployment of the SOA deployment environment model and the modification of the deployed SOA deployment environment model may be realized in a simple and easy-to-implement manner.

Deploying and modifying a service-oriented architecture deployment environment model

A system for deploying a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment environment model and a system for modifying a deployed SOA deployment environment model. In the deploying system, deployment of the SOA deployment environment model is realized by acquiring a task list including tasks for deploying elements of the model, associating the tasks in the task list with the elements, and executing the tasks to deploy the elements of the model. In the modifying system, modification of the SOA deployment environment model is realized by acquiring a task list including tasks for modifying elements of the model, associating the tasks in the task list with the elements, and executing the tasks to modify the elements. Thus, the deployment of the SOA deployment environment model and the modification of the deployed SOA deployment environment model may be realized in a simple and easy-to-implement manner.

A computer program product comprises a computer useable medium. The computer useable medium has a computer readable program such that when the computer readable medium is executed on a computer, the computer is caused to provide a data interface between an adapter component and one or more application interface components for a runtime application. Further, the computer is caused to establish a cursor that iterates over a plurality of data objects within a data set of the runtime application. In addition, the computer is caused to establish an accessor that provides access to a data element of the data object. The computer is also caused to provide the cursor and the accessor to the adapter component so that the adapter component accesses data through the one or more application interface components of the runtime application.

Method and system for providing a data exchange service provider interface

A computer program product comprises a computer useable medium. The computer useable medium has a computer readable program such that when the computer readable medium is executed on a computer, the computer is caused to configure an adapter such that the adapter is specific to a data source, provides a communication link to the data source, converts a format of the data source to a format native to a middleware system, and converts a format of metadata of the data source to a standard metadata format. Further, the computer is caused to configure an application interface component to convert an invocation of a function in the middleware system to an invocation of a function provided by an Enterprise Information System through the adapter, convert the data format of the middleware system to a format native to the Enterprise Information System accessed through the adapter, and maintain metadata describing a message format and a function provided by the adapter.

Method and system for providing a componentized resource adapter architecture

A servlet for enabling communications between a client having an Atom feed reader and an Enterprise Information System (EIS). The servlet enables communications between the client and the EIS by acting as a proxy for an J2CA resource adapter deployed on an application server. The servlet receives HTTP requests from the Atom feed reader and translates those requests into appropriate adapter function calls based on the specified HTTP function and the provided key information. The servlet then invokes the appropriate functions and receives the response from the adapter. If a single object is returned by the adapter, the servlet translates the object into Atom-compliant XML and transmits it to the Atom feed reader as the response. If multiple objects are returned, the servlet generates a list of URLs which uniquely specify and identify each object returned by the adapter and provides this list to the Atom feed reader.

Apparatus and system for producing atom feeds with J2CA adapters

An apparatus and system are disclosed for receiving a data set from a data-exchange server, generating methods for accessing and performing operations on data in the data set from metadata defining the data set, using the access methods to generate a method for transforming the bidirectional format of the text data between the format of the server and a format defined in the metadata of the data set, and automatically employing the transformation method to transform the bidirectional format of text data in the data set, prior to performing an operation on the data, to the format appropriate to the particular operation.

Apparatus and system for an automated bidirectional format transform

The invention relates to Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) operations. 'interactionSpec' and 'connectionSpec' are Java 2 Enterprise Edition Java Connector Architecture interfaces. Their properties are exposed as data in WSIF operations. Thus WSIF support for the Java 2 Enterprise Edition Java Connector Architecture is made functionally more complete.

Exposing J2C interface properties

A method and apparatus are disclosed for discovering and selecting faults where more than one programming model is involved. The present invention enables selection of faults and the mappings necessary to handle exceptions across multiple code environments.

Fault discovery and selection apparatus and method

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for supporting service components written in non-native runtime code in a Service Component Architecture ('SCA'). A read module is included to read an implementation type definition having metadata identifying executable code that executes a new implementation type. A receive module is included to detect a dynamic service call to a service component having the new implementation type. The dynamic service call is defined in an SCA message from a calling SCA component. A passing module is included to pass the dynamic service call to a predefined SCA implementation handler associated with the new implementation type. The SCA implementation handler includes native runtime code and implementation logic for executing the dynamic service call by executing non-native runtime code that returns a result to the SCA implementation handler. A packaging module packages the result in an SCA return message to the calling SCA component.

Apparatus, system, and method for supporting service components written in non-native runtime code in a service component architecture

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for accessing enterprise information system (EIS) resources in a service component architecture (SCA) for an integration server by selectively binding a service import to a low-level EIS resource adapter (RA) resource of an EIS service provider in response to a declarative binding definition, selectively binding a service import to an EIS service of the EIS service provider in response to a declarative binding definition, and selectively binding a service import to one or more EIS resources through an EIS service mapping configured to transform a service request from the service component client to satisfy an interface pattern of the EIS service provider. By allowing access to resources at different levels and allowing mappings of resources, the requirements of service clients can be met.

Apparatus, system, and method for a programming model for accessing EIS systems as services

Embodiments of the present invention provide a connector adapted to convey data between a first application and a second application (or application components). The applications may be hosted by different computer systems interconnected by a communications link or network. The connector in addition to being interposed between the first and second application is adapted to communicate with one or more protocol handlers (wherein a protocol handler provides the formatting of data to conform with a specific protocol&#x2014;e.g., HTTP, SOAP, etc.). The protocol handlers configure the connector thus allowing data received by the connector from the first application to be serviced (e.g., formatted) to conform to the protocol provided by the protocol handler which has been 'plugged' into the connector.

Configurable connector

Configurable connector adapted to convey data between a first application and a second application

In one aspect of the present invention a framework is presented for the generation and execution of code performing conversion to and from an arbitrary native or 'wire' data format. The code facilitates a business application using a service provided by a service implementation in accordance with a native language of the implementation which may be different from the language of the business application. The main components of the framework include a model of the information necessary for the formatting of data which may be represented through the extensions to WSDL; a tool time support environment providing structured support for the generation of format handlers; and runtime support for the generated format handlers. In an alternative to this static invocation model, a dynamic usage scenario provides for invocation of format handlers dynamically obtained from a format handler factory. In both cases, the runtime uses a lazy approach to the conversion to and from the native format for improved performance. The framework is particularly suited to resource adapters for adapting an EIS service implementation for use with a business application desiring a service from the EIS.

Mapping to and from native type formats

Presented herein is a method and computer program product for generating, in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), a software application that is designed to exploit services of multiple Enterprise Information Systems (EISs). In one embodiment, the method associates each of multiple Resource and Tooling Adapters (RTAs) with a selected one of multiple Enterprise Information Services (EISs). A software application, which uses multiple EISs and is developed through development facilities of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), is identified. Source code that is used to access the services of the multiple EISs is generated by plugging multiple corresponding RTAs into the IDE. Using plugged-in multiple corresponding RTAs in the IDE, data is provided, to the IDE, that describes services available from the multiple EISs to the software application.

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San Carlos, CA, United States of America

Piotr Przybylski