Oracle International Corporation

Thomas Kauth

Ariel Cohen

Nicolas Damonte

Fernando Alurralde Iturri

Process flow is created that represents a process-based software application. User specified connector creation information for creating connectors is received. User specified element information are received for associating elements with the process flow. One of the elements is a service task, and a connector is selected and configured from the connectors. The process-based software application is executed in a first computing environment. Interactions between the process-based software application and the connector framework are provided during the executing of the process-based software application in the first computing environment. The process-based software application is executed in a second computing environment. The process-based software application does not interact with the connector framework during the executing of the process-based software application in the second computing environment.

Executing a process-based software application in a first computing environment and a second computing environment

An example system and method facilitates developing and interacting with connectors that represent or are associated with services or interfaces to be implemented in a computing environment. The example system includes a connector editor backed by a connectors framework that specializes and links to the specific editor and dialogs that enables a developer to customize and configure any of plural available connectors for a specific purpose (e.g., to connect a process step to a particular type of web service). Furthermore, the connectors framework and associated editor(s) enable all of the connectors of available connector types to be configured using the same life cycle and to be automatically parameterized to use different data when running on the different environments, e.g., different test and production environments.

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