International Business Machines Corporation

Suraksha Vidyarthi

Travis Eli Nelson

Corville O Allen

Jason Nathaniel Lacombe

Ranjana Kaur Tasser

Adriana M Loghin

Piotr Przybylski

Madhavi Katari

Venkat Arun Reddy

John Henry Green

Paul Stanley

Ella Belisario

Gopalakrishnan Balasubramanian

Daniel J Savoie

Pravesh Kirit Patel

Vadim S Semenov

Sugandha Srikanteswaran

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer-usable program product for exchanging data using data transformation are provided. A first data binding component receives data from a function selector. A set of data bindings capable of invocation by the first data binding component is available. The function selector determines a content type associated with the data. The first data binding component receives the data and the content type from the function selector. The first data binding component invokes a data binding corresponding to the content type from the set of data bindings to transform the data into a data object. The data object has an object name. A target application is determined based on the object name, and the data object is then routed to a target application.

Exchanging data using data transformation

For seamlessly abstracting metadata in multiple formats, an abstraction module converts first metadata of an incoming object and additional metadata for the incoming object from an annotation map contained by the first metadata into a common format useable. The additional metadata is not part of an original format of the first metadata. A communication module communicates the converted metadata to an adapter in the common format, the adapter processing the first metadata and the additional metadata independent of the original format of the first metadata.

Seamless multiple format metadata abstraction

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

Disclosed is a computer implemented method, computer program product, and data processing system for propagating object fields associated with an event to a client application. A software module gets an event having an event identifier, wherein the event identifier is associated with a business object. The software module analyzes the business object and the application specific metadata to determine the delta component used for the event. The software module builds the delta business object based on the delta content. The software module determines if the business object has a child object. The software module sets the business object to be the child object in response to a determination that the business object has the child object. The software module propagates the delta business object to the client application.

Propagate delta information from an enterprise information system

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for assuring delivery of an Enterprise Information System (EIS) event to a client. An adapter apparatus polls at least one EIS for an event. The event is staged to a staging table, consisting of an XA-compliant database, in preparation for delivery to the client. The status of the event is marked and the event is delivered to the client. Events delivered to clients that are unresponsive or otherwise unavailable are held until the clients become responsive and then the events are delivered. Delivery of events is confirmed using a transaction service.

Apparatus, system, and method for facilitating communication between an enterprise information system and a client

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for providing seamless multiple format metadata abstraction. A metadata application programming interface (API) is provided to abstract metadata from an incoming business object and provide it to an adapter for processing. The metadata API is configured to operate on multiple metadata formats such as SDO and JavaBean such that the adapter receives the metadata from the metadata API in a common format that is compatible with the adapter. In this manner, the multiple metadata formats may be plugably used with the adapter.

Apparatus, system, and method for seamless multiple format metadata abstraction

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for object clone event notification. The apparatus is provided with a logic unit containing a plurality of modules configured to functionally execute the necessary steps of detecting an event on a primary software object, referencing a set of clones of the primary software object, and notifying one or more clones in the set of clones of the event in response to the event. The event may include events occurring on the primary software object, or events occurring on a software object monitored by the primary software object. These modules in the described embodiments include a detection module, a reference module, and a notification module. Beneficially, such an apparatus, system, and method would notify object clones of changes within the software system without requiring resource intensive broadcasts or implementation of a separate notification manager.

Apparatus, system, and method for object clone event notification

An apparatus, system, and method is disclosed for receiving a hierarchical data structure, analyzing the hierarchical data structure to determine what actions are needed to correctly process the hierarchical data structure in a data repository, generating a hierarchical command structure comprising a series of repository-specific commands needed to interface with the data repository, and executing the repository-specific commands to process the hierarchical data structure with respect to the data repository. In selected embodiments, the hierarchical command structure is represented as a series of nodes including a parent node and at least one child node.

Apparatus, system, and method for processing hierarchical data in disparate data repositories

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

An apparatus, system, and method for providing command manager support for pluggable data formats. The present invention accepts arbitrary hierarchical input data structures even when the hierarchical input data structure represents hierarchical data in a structure independent of a specific type of data repository. A data mediator receives a hierarchical input data structure and determines whether if it is a snapshot structure or a delta structure. If it is a snapshot update, the command manager creates an in-memory map object structure populated with values from a data repository and compares it with the snapshot. Based on the comparison, it generates a DESPI hierarchical command structure in a format-specific mediation module, and the commands are executed in the data repository. If the hierarchical input data structure is a delta structure, the command manager generates a hierarchical command structure and then translates it to a DESPI-compliant command structure. The commands are then executed in the data repository.

Apparatus, system, and method for command manager support for pluggable data formats

The illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for automatically migrating a resource adapter component. In one embodiment, information describing a development and runtime environment associated with a first version of a resource adapter is collected by a migration framework to form real environment information. A specification of requirements associated with a second version of the resource adapter is received from the second version of the resource adapter to form a required environment specification. The migration framework compares the real environment information with the required environment specification. In response to identifying incompatibilities between the real environment information and the required environment specification, the migration framework automatically executes a migration scenario to resolve the incompatibilities.

Extensible mechanism for automatically migrating resource adapter components in a development environment

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for implementing failover in a polling adapter without support from an application server. A priority list is stored as part of an adapter configuration that specifies the server names that will participate in a group cluster. Adapters associated with the servers, in addition to accessing the event table when active, access a failover table which contains information about which adapter is currently active and when it last polled the event table. When a preconfigured failover interval has elapsed since the last poll of the event table by the active adapter, a next highest priority takes over the processing duties by polling the event table and logging its last poll time in the failover table.

Apparatus, system, and method for implementing failover in a polling adapter without support from an application server

Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for generating from application modifications commands to modify the objects in a repository. An input object including an update to at least one of a plurality of objects in a repository object is received. At least one maintain property associated with at least one of the objects is received. The at least one maintain property indicates whether to maintain the at least one object associated with the maintain property in the repository object that is not indicated in the input object. A determination is made of an object in the repository object that are not indicated in the input object. For the determined object, the maintain property associated with the determined object is used to determine whether to maintain the determined object in the repository object.

Generating from application modifications commands to modify the objects in a repository

A method is disclosed for receiving a hierarchical data structure, analyzing the hierarchical data structure to determine what actions are needed to correctly process the hierarchical data structure in a data repository, generating a hierarchical command structure comprising a series of repository-specific commands needed to interface with the data repository, and executing the repository-specific commands to process the hierarchical data structure with respect to the data repository. In selected embodiments, the hierarchical command structure is represented as a series of nodes including a parent node and at least one child node.

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