An Open Model Driven Architecture Application Implementation Service

• US 20060101387A1
• Filed: 10/22/2004
• Published: 05/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gerken, Christopher Henry, Hambrick, Geoffrey Martin
• Application Number:
  US10/904,108
• Publication Number:
  US 20060101387A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/106
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces

Abstract

A process for developing a software application as a service using an open model drive architecture. The business problem is analyzed to develop an application definition in a first flexible grammar. A number of view templates are accessed using a controller definition that interprets the grammar to transform the application definition into content output. The output content is generated by applying application attributes to dynamic content descriptors.

Claims

1. A method of implementing a software product for a client, comprising the steps of:

a method of implementing a software product for a client, comprising the steps of;

analyzing an application problem to be solved by the software product developing an application description using a first application description grammar;

implementing one or more view templates for producing an application content using said software product, said view templates having static and dynamic content sections;

specifying a controller element for transforming said application description to application content; and

generating application content by;

recognizing grammar elements in said first grammar;

processing transformation control if said grammar element is a control element; and

generating content by selecting a view template based on a template grammar element and replacing dynamic content as specified in said grammar element.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of implementing one or more view templates comprises:

accessing a content example;

abstracting view patterns from the example;

creating a view pattern with static parts representing programming code and dynamic parts representing attributes of the business model; and

storing the view pattern.