International Business Machines Corporation

Randy Dee Baxter

Brent Allen Carlson

Vincent Edmund Price

James E Carey

Sterling Richardson Smith

Timothy James Graser

Erik Edward Voldal

Michael Dennis McKeehan

Christopher H L Wicher

Mark Alan Pasch

Albert S Lee

A method, system and computer program product for providing an integrated environment for processing business object documents (BODs). The integrated environment utilizes an IntelliBod system to employ standard business semantics while adapting modified business terms. Applications requesting integration, or mapping, map to common business semantics of the BODs, and the IntelliBOD system manages the business semantic (and technical) integration of the applications. IntelliBOD systems utilize JAVA environments to process requests, thereby reducing cost and space required to maintain general purpose middleware.

Intelligent business object document system

An object oriented framework defines a generic order processing interface that creates an order, and that processes the order and generates requests to one or more fulfillment systems to fill the order. The generic order suitably includes one or more line items. One or more extensible interface classes are provided in the framework, which allows a user to define the order entry protocol for the relevant order fulfillment systems. Once properly extended, the framework is used to generate an executable framework application, which allows a client to enter a generic order, and which then generates the appropriate requests to fill the order with the appropriate order fulfillment system or systems. The framework of the preferred embodiments thus allows the specific knowledge of the back-end order fulfillment systems to be isolated to the extended portions of the framework, while the front-end order entry system has no knowledge of the order fulfillment systems that may be called upon to fill an order. The framework of the present invention thus allows adding a new order fulfillment system by simply extending the framework to define the attributes of the new fulfillment system without making changes to the core portion of the framework that governs how generic orders are processed.

Object oriented framework mechanism and method for providing a generic order entry processing interface for one or more order fulfillment systems

In an object oriented computer system, a domain-neutral object is modified with domain-specific run-time extensions to customize the object to a particular domain. A special factory uses the extension identifier to create the domain-neutral object with appropriate extensions in a collection that corresponds to the domain extension. If the special factory is not available, or if a specialized collection associated with the particular extension type has not been previously created, the domain-neutral object with appropriate extensions is created in a default collection. In this manner, an object that is domain-neutral can be customized to a particular domain and created in an appropriate collection for objects of that type.

Object mechanism and method that creates domain-neutral objects with domain-specific run-time extensions in an appropriate collection

A method and computer program product are provided for implementing pushdown queries in a distributed object management system. A pushdown query to a system datastore is performed for a query type returning a single object. Responsive to the system datastore finding the match, checking whether the match refers to an object changed in the current transaction is performed. Responsive to the match not referring to a changed object, the object is returned. Responsive to the match referring to the changed object and the changed object matching the pushdown query, the changed object is returned. Responsive to the system datastore not finding the match, a list of changed objects in a current transaction is obtained. Each of the changed objects are in a current transactional state. An object query is performed on the changed objects in the list of changed objects. A multiple object pushdown query to the system datastore is performed for a query type returning multiple objects. Then the list of changed objects in the current transaction is obtained and the object query is performed on the changed objects. Results of the multiple object pushdown query and object query are merged and returned.

Method and computer program product for implementing pushdown query in a distributed object management system

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Randy Dee Baxter