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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2007
Andrew Willis Bliven, Ii, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ian Bavey, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jack Greenfield, Redmond, WA (US);
Frank Fan, Redmond, WA (US);
David Trowbridge, Enumclaw, WA (US);
David S. Noble, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Hayton, Kirkland, WA (US);
Vinay Bharadwaj, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew Willis Bliven, II, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ian Bavey, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jack Greenfield, Redmond, WA (US);
Frank Fan, Redmond, WA (US);
David Trowbridge, Enumclaw, WA (US);
David S. Noble, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Hayton, Kirkland, WA (US);
Vinay Bharadwaj, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing an integration framework that enables tools to be integrated. The integration framework enables tools participating in the framework to be encapsulated in a manner that hides their implementations, thereby preventing them from taking deep dependencies on each other. The integration framework also enables the tools participating in the framework to carry formal type definitions called service and data contracts that describe the public behaviors they offer. The integration framework also provides support for migrating integration logic from tools into pluggable commands to further reduce coupling between the tools.