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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2003
Rainer Brendle, Neckargemuend, DE;
Frank Brunswig, Heidelberg, DE;
Josef Dietl, Nussloch, DE;
Rolf Krane, Wiesloch, DE;
Juergen Remmel, Muehlhausen, DE;
Stephan Ritter, Saarbruecken, DE;
Johannes Viegener, Karlsruhe, DE;
Rainer Brendle, Neckargemuend, DE;
Frank Brunswig, Heidelberg, DE;
Josef Dietl, Nussloch, DE;
Rolf Krane, Wiesloch, DE;
Juergen Remmel, Muehlhausen, DE;
Stephan Ritter, Saarbruecken, DE;
Johannes Viegener, Karlsruhe, DE;
SAP AG, Walldorf, DE;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, that include representing, in a repository, services from a server, the services including interacting with one or more collections of data elements using a set of operations on the data elements in the collections, the repository comprising descriptions of the collections and common attributes for each collection, the repository organized according to a meta model. The method also includes enabling a software entity to request a service represented in the repository, the service representing a first operation on one or more data elements in a first collection from the collections, and executing the first operation on the one or more data elements in the first collection.