Oracle International Corporation

Qing Zhong

Ariel Cohen

Fernando Alurralde Iturri

Prabhu Thukkaram

Khanderao Kand

Albert Tam

Greg Pavlik

Avi Borthakur

Clemens Utschig-Utschig

Resource-to-operation pairs are received at a user interface. The resource-to-operation pairs are stored in a model abstraction as a flat structure. The resource-to-operation pairs in the flat structure are converted into Representational State Transfer (REST) connectors. The REST connectors are encoded in a conventional interface description language. The REST connectors are stored in webpage code. A request is received at the webpage code from the client system for a service of a process step of the process-based software application. A REST connector in the webpage code translates the request to a message that conforms with the service. A response from the service is received at the webpage code. The response from the service is processed at the webpage code. Data retrieved by the processing of the response is accessed via a browser located at the client system.

Providing communication between a client system and a process-based software application

An example system and method provides an enhancement to a software editor, enabling a user (e.g., developer) to visualize a REST API (also called a REST service herein) as a list of resources presented in a flat structure, i.e., a simple list of resources containing operations. The software editor may be a fully JS/HTML/CSS (JavaScript, HyperText Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheets) compliant editor that lets the user define connectors to REST API's in an easy and fluid way. Furthermore, the editor facilitates creation of a connector to the REST API in a generic fashion, without requiring user knowledge of any particular interface or description language, such as RAML, YAML, WADL, etc. The user, e.g., developer, may simply define resources and corresponding operations to thereby enable the editor to automatically generate a corresponding connector to the REST API. The enhanced software editor also facilitates creation of business objects from a JSON instance or schema.

Automatically generating an interface description in an interface description language

Generic-flat structure rest API editor

A framework is provided for enabling and managing customizations to an application. In one embodiment, techniques are provided that enable the customizability of an application to be controlled based upon hierarchical relations between elements of the application.

Techniques related to customizations for composite applications

Techniques are provided for displaying information regarding customizations made to an application. The information may be displayed in a design-time environment and/or a runtime environment.

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