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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2005
Eric Wood, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Joerg Beringer, Frankfurt, DE;
Eric Wood, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Joerg Beringer, Frankfurt, DE;
SAP AG, Walldorf, DE;
Abstract
A computer implemented method for running a plurality of business services within an explicitly defined business context wherein the context and the business services are representing meaningful instances of work situation or actions, the method comprising: provisioning web services, a composition of services, or both with an additional input/output interface for passing data from and to a parent business context; enabling this interface to handle long running, stateful actions; and implementing a standardized user interaction behavior to make the user interface of an action reusable across contexts. An embodiment of the invention introduces an 'action' concept which can be technically described as a wrapping layer on top of enterprise services that provides a special plug & execute interface to enable a service or a composition of services to interact with a parent context.