International Business Machines Corporation

Vernon Maurice Green

Amanda Elizabeth Chessell

Graham Castree Charters

Michael Friess

Doina Liliana Klinger

Andrew M Leonard

David Currie

Philip Ivor Wakelin

Piotr Przybylski

David John Vines

Bryan Eric Aupperle

John Henry Green

Ernest Wing Mah

Catherine Susan Griffin

Paul Stanley

Pete Stretton

Jeffrey Blight

Amy Thatcher Mollin

Keith B Mantell

Elizabeth Catherine Savoie

A method provides real world contexts to computer applications for outputting data describing one or more real world contexts. Components are identified in a computer application which implement instances of real world contexts and application components are updated so that a real world context instance is active during the execution by the application of a function for the real world context instance. Each real world context instance may have an instance identifier and is referenced by type of real world context.

Providing real world contexts to computer applications

A method and system for grouping events is provided in which a plurality of base groups () each define a set of event points. Combined groups () have a set of event points defined by the combination of the event points in combining groups. The combination may be by a union of groups or an exclusion of groups and may combine base groups () and/or combined groups () together. The method and system activate or deactivate groups to enable or disable the generation of events defined by the event points in a group. The generation of events may record event instances () of the event points for analysis, to provide an alert for an event instance of predetermined value, to trigger a further event or activity, or to publish the event instances for the event points.

Method and system for grouping events

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 configure an adapter such that the adapter is specific to a data source, provides a communication link to the data source, converts a format of the data source to a format native to a middleware system, and converts a format of metadata of the data source to a standard metadata format. Further, the computer is caused to configure an application interface component to convert an invocation of a function in the middleware system to an invocation of a function provided by an Enterprise Information System through the adapter, convert the data format of the middleware system to a format native to the Enterprise Information System accessed through the adapter, and maintain metadata describing a message format and a function provided by the adapter.

Method and system for providing a componentized resource adapter architecture

A JMS implementation integrates into an application server based on the JCA Architecture. A JMS Connection is integrated based on one implementation of a JCA which sets transactional context for the JMS Connection to 'no transaction', and the JMS Session is integrated based on a second implementation of the JCA which ignores any security credentials provided. The application is unaware that it is dealing with a JCA implementation and not directly with the JMS implementation and the JMS implementation is unaware that it is being called via the JCA implementation and not directly from the application.

JMS integration into an application server

The present invention provides a means of monitoring the progress of an IT implementation of a process or activity through a defined set of situation types and event objects corresponding to said situation types whereby, if the IT implementation of the process or activity is changed, provided the event objects corresponding to the defined situation types are still generated by the new IT implementation or are able to be derived from the new IT implementation through mapping and/or the instrumentation of new events, the monitor is able to receive or retrieve said event objects and thus perform its monitoring function. This has the advantage of de-coupling the monitor from the specific IT implementation of the process or activity and thus allows a generic monitoring solution to be provided.

Monitor for an information technology system

A workflow application is represented by a graph comprising a plurality of components, some of which may be processes. At least two of the processes are interpreted according to different respective sets of rules. The sets of rules are implemented in either a plurality of respective navigation engines or in a single engine implementing multiple sets of rules.

Flexible navigation of a workflow graph

Thus the present invention provides a method which enables a JMS implementation to be integrated into an application server based on the JCA Architecture. In this method the JMS Connection is integrated based on one implementation of the JCA which sets transactional context for the JMS Connection to no transaction, and the JMS Session is integrated based on a second implementation of the JCA which sets the security property to no security. In the method the application is unaware that is it dealing with a JCA implementation and not directly with the JMS implementation and the JMS implementation is unaware that it is being called via the JCA and not directly from the application. The method thus provides an architecture for integration of a JMS into an application server which takes advantage of the JCA such as provision of security properties and transactional context to the JMS in a standard way, and JMS connection pooling and sharing.

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Vernon Maurice Green