METHOD FOR PRODUCING COMPUTER-CONTROLLED SERVICES

• US 20010034878A1
• Filed: 04/08/1998
• Published: 10/25/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1995
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Telecommunications Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Telecommunications Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: NARVANEN, PIA, ALA-RANTALA, MARTTI, AHMAVUO, PEKKA
• Granted Patent: US 6,351,842 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing application-specific computer-controlled services. An application-specific program code is generated automatically and an application-specific computer program for providing said service is formed. In order to perform changes more easily than before, the computer program is divided into three groups. The first group (A) is formed only of such a code that remains the same regardless of the application, and the second and the third group are provided with a code produced by means of said generation in such a way that (a) the second group (B) only includes a code produced by means of said generation and (b) the third group (C) contains a code produced with said generation that is to be changed by the designer after the generation. The generating means (11) are informed of whether the code to be generated is produced for the second or for the third group.

Claims

1. A method for producing application-specific computer-controlled services for a user, the method comprising

forming a description file wherein the application for which the service is intended is described with the terms of the application architecture used,

generating automatically an application-specific program code from which the application-specific computer program is formed by using software generating means (11) and by following the rules of the application architecture used, and

running said computer program in order to provide the user with said service,

characterized in that the computer program is divided into different groups in such a way that

the first group (A) is formed only of such a program code that remains the same regardless of the application,

the second and the third group are provided with a program code produced by means of said generation in such a way that (a) the second group (B) only includes a program code produced by means of said generation and (b) the third group (C) contains such a code produced with said generating that the designer is intended to change after the generation, and

the generating means (11) are informed of whether the code to be generated is produced for the second or for the third group.

2. A method according to

claim 1

, characterized in that the application is object-based and that the properties of the first group are inherited to the second group and the properties of the second group to the third group.

3. A method according to

claim 1

, characterized in that inside the third group the part to be modified by the designer is separated from the rest of the group with character strings reserved for this purpose.

4. A method according to

claim 1

, characterized in that in the description an individual identifier is given to the information that is supplemented by means of said generation with a code to which changes made by the designer are to be added.

5. A method according to

claim 2

, characterized in that the input data provided to the generating means is divided into two parts in such a way that one corresponds to said second group and the other one corresponds to said third group.

6. A method according to

claim 5

, characterized in that said parts consist of template files, and that the generation is performed by supplementing the template files on the basis of the application description.

7. A method according to

claim 1

, characterized in that the method produces network management services with which the user of the network management system controls the telecommunication network.

8. A system for producing application-specific computer-controlled services, the system comprising

a description stored in a memory about the application for which the service is intended, the description being made with the terms of the application architecture used,

software generating means (11) for generating an application-specific program code according to the rules of the application architecture used, characterized in that said generating means are operationally coupled to separation means (12, 13) for separating the generated code into two different groups in such a way that one group (B) only contains a program code produced by means of said generation and the other group (C) contains such a code produced by said generation that is to be changed by the designer after the generation.

9. A system according to

claim 8

, characterized in that the separation means comprise said description and separate template files (13a, 13b) for each group.

10. A system according to

claim 8

, characterized in that it is a part of a network management system where the system is used to produce network management services by means of which the user of the network management system controls the telecommunication network.