Method and apparatus for developing enterprise applications using design patterns

• US 20020073396A1
• Filed: 06/01/2001
• Published: 06/13/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sun Microsystems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Alur, Deepak, Crupi, John, Malks, Daniel
• Granted Patent: US 6,993,743 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for developing enterprise applications using design patterns. Over time, different types of enterprise applications have been developed and implemented by various software developers for different purposes. The present invention determines the purpose of the software that is needed by the developer and obtains a design pattern to solve the problem that is in accord with the best practices and patterns derived from these implementations. In turn a developer can rely on the present invention as a tool to develop and implement applications in a three-tier or multi-tier computer architecture.

Claims

1. A method for providing a design pattern comprising:

determining a type of design pattern;

providing a plurality of instances of said type of design pattern; and

choosing a member of said plurality of instances.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said type is a presentation.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said type is a business.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said type is a service.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said type is an integration.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said type is a hybrid.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein said hybrid is a business/service hybrid.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein said hybrid is a presentation/business hybrid.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein said hybrid is a business/integration hybrid.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein said member is a mediator view design pattern.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein said member is a service to workers design pattern.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein said member is a mutable conversational business entity design pattern.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein said member is a mutable conversational aggregator business entity design pattern.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein said member is an immutable business object builder design pattern.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein said member is a mutable conversational value object business entity.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein said member is a immutable conversational business list handler design pattern.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein said member is a business delegate design pattern.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein said member is a service workflow controller design pattern.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein said member is a service island proxy integrator design pattern.

35. The design pattern locator of claim 19 wherein said member is a immutable conversational business list handler design pattern.

20. A design pattern locator comprising:

a determiner configured to identify a design pattern type;

a provider configured to display a plurality of instances of said design pattern type; and

a chooser configured to choose a member of said plurality of instances.

21. The design pattern locator of claim 20 wherein said design pattern type is a presentation.

22. The design pattern locator of claim 20 wherein said design pattern type is a business.

23. The design pattern locator of claim 20 wherein said design pattern type is a service.

24. The design pattern locator of claim 20 wherein said design pattern type is an integration.

25. The design pattern locator of claim 20 wherein said design pattern type is a hybrid.

26. The design pattern locator of claim 25 wherein said hybrid is a business/service hybrid.

27. The design pattern locator of claim 25 wherein said hybrid is a presentation/business hybrid.

28. The design pattern locator of claim 25 wherein said hybrid is a business/integration hybrid.

29. The design pattern locator of claim 25 wherein said member is a mediator view design pattern.

30. The design pattern locator of claim 25 wherein said member is a service to workers design pattern.

31. The design pattern locator of claim 25 wherein said member is a mutable conversational business entity design pattern.

32. The design pattern locator of claim 25 wherein said member is a mutable conversational aggregator business entity design pattern.

33. The design pattern locator of claim 25 wherein said member is an immutable business object builder design pattern.

34. The design pattern locator of claim 25 wherein said member is a mutable conversational value object business entity.

36. The design pattern locator of claim 20 wherein said member is a business delegate design pattern.

37. The design pattern locator of claim 20 wherein said member is a service workflow controller design pattern.

38. The design pattern locator of claim 20 wherein said member is a service island proxy integrator design pattern.

40. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said type is a presentation.

41. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said type is a business.

42. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said type is a service.

43. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said type is an integration.

44. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said type is a hybrid.

45. The computer program product of claim 44 wherein said hybrid is a business/service hybrid.

46. The computer program product of claim 44 wherein said hybrid is a presentation/business hybrid.

47. The computer program product of claim 44 wherein said hybrid is a business/integration hybrid.

48. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said member is a mediator view design pattern.

49. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said member is a service to workers design pattern.

50. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said member is a mutable conversational business entity design pattern.

51. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said member is a mutable conversational aggregator business entity design pattern.

52. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said member is an immutable business object builder design pattern.

53. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said member is a mutable conversational value object business entity.

54. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said member is a immutable conversational business list handler design pattern.

55. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said member is a business delegate design pattern.

56. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said member is a service workflow controller design pattern.

57. The computer program product of claim 39 wherein said member is a service island proxy integrator design pattern.

39. A computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein configured to locate a design pattern, said computer program product comprising;

computer readable code configured to cause a computer to determine a type of design pattern;

computer readable code configured to cause a computer to provide a plurality of instances of said type of design pattern; and

computer readable code configured to cause a computer to choose a member of said plurality of instances.