International Business Machines Corporation

Titania Mary Gupta

Laurent David Hasson

Rakesh Mohan

John Scott Houston

Mitchell Adam Cohen

Revathi Subramanian

Josef Schiefer

Jakka Sairamesh

Jianren Li

A method and apparatus are disclosed for managing composite business processes that include multiple trading mechanisms, such as requests for quotes (RFQs), auctions and contracts, or repeat passes through a single trading mechanism. The independence of the individual business processes that manage each trading mechanism is maintained, while each individual business process can be connected to other business processes to form a composite business process. Each individual business process that may be followed by another business process to form a composite process must have at least one state labeled as a conversion state with a conversion transition to another business process. A conversion transition spans the gap between an end state of one business process and the start state of another subsequent business process. When a conversion state is entered by an object, a determination is made as to whether the object is being managed by a composite flow, and if so, what business process to use next. Conversion transitions execute any necessary steps to create a new object of the type required by the next business process in the composite process.

Method and apparatus for creating and managing complex business processes

A system, method and program product for generating artifacts that can convert back and forth between non-EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) objects and EMF-based objects in an EMF-based runtime environment such as Web Data Objects (WDO) or Service Data Objects (SDO). Included is a system for inputting one or more non EMF application classes such as Java Beans and generating artifacts that include: a source meta model (ecore) that describes the data model defined by the input application classes; an EMap file that contains mappings between the classes and properties of the non-EMF objects and the EMF Objects; a target meta model (ecore) which represents the source meta model as transformed by the emap mappings; and a set of java classes (Mediators and DiffHandlers) that will at runtime perform the transformation between the two environments (non-EMF and EMF based objects).

System and method for utilizing non-EMF based objects in an EMF environment

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Titania Mary Gupta