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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2009
William Alexander, Providence, RI (US);
Shyh-mei F. Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Jenny C. Hung, San Jose, CA (US);
Cynthia F. Krauss, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
William Alexander, Providence, RI (US);
Shyh-Mei F. Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Jenny C. Hung, San Jose, CA (US);
Cynthia F. Krauss, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A graphical user interface (GUI) of a software development tool can visually compose process flows for enterprise information system (EIS) process flow applications. The GUI can include a canvas that visually shows a set of process flows of a process flow application as a set of interconnected node objects. Each node object can corresponds to a node, which corresponds to at least one process flow. The GUI can also include a graphical compensation tool through which users define and view compensation actions and compensation scopes of process flows of the process flow application, wherein said graphical compensation tool does not require a user to input code text that defining compensation logic of the process flows.