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Sachar Sagi

Nimrod Vishnia-Shabtai

One or more embodiments of the invention enable a computer-implemented method for global data synchronization and a computer system for communicating with a global data synchronization network. A server interface configuration file is used which describes a server interface configuration comprises declarative definitions of data attributes, format information, and a data pool.

System and method for dynamically modifying synchronized business information server interfaces

One or more embodiments of the invention enable data that is synchronized between businesses to be transferred to any desired data pool or data pool version in a format that may be declaratively specified and dynamically altered to meet the needs of the specific data pool or data pool version. The data pool vendor utilized by a company or the attributes and formats used in communicating with a particular data pool may change over time and embodiments of the invention are capable of automatically detecting and altering the data and format of the data to be transferred to and from the data pool. The server interface configuration may comprise an XML file in one embodiment of the invention. The XML file may be parsed with any compliant schema based or DTD based XML parser and sent to the server interface for dynamic update using JMS for example. The server interface itself may be implemented or make use of a Resource Adapter configured to operate within the Java Connector Architecture of the Enterprise JavaBeans specification. In at least one embodiment of the invention an N-tier architecture may be employed comprising an Application Server. The server interface accepts an incoming server interface configuration request and utilizes information derived from the XML configuration file in order to add or remove data attributes or alter the format of the data attributes that are transferred to and from each data pool. In this embodiment of the invention, data pools may be switched by at run-time without recompiling and redistributing the application.

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Amirim, Israel

Sachar Sagi