Methods of exposing business application runtime exceptions at design time

• US 20060242177A1
• Filed: 08/15/2005
• Published: 10/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Stulski, Vitaliy, Tsyganskiy, Igor, Satsuta, Eugene, Scheinkman, Luiz, Liakh, Dmitri
• Application Number:
  US11/203,308
• Publication Number:
  US 20060242177A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/72 Code refactoring

Abstract

In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, methods and systems analyze referential integrity of a business application by receiving a model representing the business application and processing the model using a code compiler to identify a compiler exception. The compiler exception is correlated in the model to a referential integrity instance in the business application and a correction of the compiler exception is enabled in the model. The correction is then applied to the business application to correct the correlated referential instance.

Claims

1. A method of analyzing referential integrity of a business application, comprising:

receiving a model representing the business application;

processing the model using a code compiler to identify a compiler exception;

correlating the compiler exception in the model to a referential integrity instance in the business application;

enabling a correction of the compiler exception in the model; and

applying the correction to the business application to correct the correlated referential instance.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying an indicator of the compiler exception in the model to depict the referential instance in the business application.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

marking each of a plurality of levels of menus in the model with notices of the compiler exception.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the indicator is one of a flag, colored text, underlining, and a pop-up window.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the model is an object-oriented programming construct representing the business application.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the business application is in a table-based format.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating a log entry for the compiler exception.

8. A method of analyzing referential integrity of a table-based business application, comprising:

receiving an object-oriented model representing the table-based business application;

processing the object-oriented model using a code analysis tool to identify an exception;

correlating the exception in the object-oriented model to a referential integrity instance in the table-based business application;

enabling a correction of the exception in the object-oriented model; and

applying the correction to the table-based business application to correct the correlated referential instance.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the exception is a referential integrity exception.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

displaying an indicator of the exception in the object-oriented model to depict the referential instance in the business application.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

marking each of a plurality of levels of menus in the object-oriented model with notices of the exception.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the indicator is one of a flag, colored text, underlining, and a pop-up window.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the code analysis tool is one of a code compiler, a code debugger, and a code interpreter.

14. A system for analyzing referential integrity of a business application, comprising:

a receiving component configured to receive a model representing the business application;

a processing component configured to process the model using a code compiler to identify a compiler exception;

a correlating component configured to correlate the compiler exception in the model to a referential integrity instance in the business application;

an enabling component configured to enable a correction of the compiler exception in the model; and

an applying component configured to apply the correction to the business application to correct the correlated referential instance.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a displaying component configured to display an indicator of the compiler exception in the model to depict the referential instance in the business application.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

a marking component configured to mark each of a plurality of levels of menus in the model with notices of the compiler exception.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the indicator is one of a flag, colored text, underlining, and a pop-up window.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the model is an object-oriented programming construct representing the business application.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein the business application is in a table-based format.

20. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a creating component configured to create a log entry for the compiler exception.