Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Uday Bhaskara

George G Robertson

Mary P Czerwinski

Vladimir Pogrebinsky

Igor Sedukhin

Girish Mittur Venkataramanappa

Oliver J Sharp

Amol Kulkarni

Stephen T Swartz

Haoran Andy Wu

John Edward Churchill

Prasad Sripathi Panditharadhya

Nagalinga Durga Prasad Sripathi Panditharadhya

Dan Eshner

Embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to effectively visualize the mapping between two schemas, referred to herein as a source schema (or first schema) and a destination schema (or second schema), regardless of the size or complexity of the schemas and mappings. According to one aspect of the present invention a method for visually representing a mapping between a first schema and a second schema is provided. The method includes receiving a selection of an object, emphasizing the selected object and identifying a plurality of objects that are relevant to the selected object. The objects that are identified as being relevant to the selected object are also emphasized.

Schema mapper

Abstracting communication with a plurality of containers. Each container encapsulates or hosts a module (e.g., a web service, a database, etc.) associated with a distributed application. A meta-container communicates with drivers that interface with each of the containers. The meta-container represents an abstraction and a virtualization of the containers in the hierarchy. Each container may also be a meta-container for other containers. The recursion and layered hierarchy provide flexible, extensible, and efficient management of the distributed application.

Meta-container for model-based distributed applications

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Uday Bhaskara