System and method for supporting packaging, publishing and republishing of wireless component applications

• US 20060248121A1
• Filed: 04/15/2005
• Published: 11/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Inventors: Shenfield, Michael, Goring, Bryan, Cacenco, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/106,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20060248121A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

An application generation environment (e.g. an IDE tool) coordinates development of component-based applications using an interconnected model of objects serialized in a first format of a structured definition language (e.g. XML). Applications are generated for execution on a client device (e.g. a wireless mobile) and a supporting stateful proxy gateway and primarily define the processing of messages communicated over a network between the client device and an external data source, such as a service or other remote end-point, via the gateway. Application artifacts are packaged by the environment in a bundle for distribution to gateways with the model of objects transformed to a second compact form. The bundle may have various attributes defined at publishing, including the re-definition of the invocation end-point contained in a service descriptor, be digitally signed and deposited in a repository (e.g. WebDAV) and published to a registry (e.g. UDDI). Bundles may be retrieved from repositories, verified, re-deposited and re-published (e.g. to a private domain) by the environment.

Claims

1. A system for coordinating the development of a component-based application, the system comprising:

a processor and a memory for storing instructions and data to configure the processor to provide;

a modeling module and interface for defining the application a plurality of application artifacts using an interconnected model of objects, the application for execution by a client device and a supporting stateful proxy gateway to process messages communicated over a network between the client device and an external data source via the gateway; and

a build module for packaging the application artifacts in a bundle.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the modeling module is adapted to serialize the interconnected model of objects in a first format of a structured definition language for development use and wherein the build module transforms a serialization of the model of objects for the application in the first format to a second compact format for runtime use to package in the bundle.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the build model packages application artifacts in the bundle comprising one or more of:

an expression of the model of objects for the application, a service descriptor (WSDL), a mapping descriptor, a resource descriptor, a catalog and a manifest.

4. The system of claim 1 including a deployment module for distributing the application through a registry and a file repository.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the deployment module is adapted to deposit the bundle in the file repository including a service descriptor for the application.

6. The system of claim 4 wherein the deployment module is adapted to define a deployment descriptor for the application for publishing to the registry.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the deployment module is adapted to define a service descriptor for the application and include the service descriptor in the bundle for the file repository.

8. The system of claim 4 wherein the deployment module is adapted to configure options for distributing the application.

9. The system of claim 4 wherein the deployment module is adapted to update an end-point for the application.

10. The system of claim 4 wherein the deployment module is adapted to verify at least one of a file repository and a registry for use.

11. The system of claim 4 wherein the deployment module is adapted to obtain a bundle from a repository to re-publish the deposited application bundle.

12. The system of claim 4 including a security module to adapt at least one of the build module and deployment module to digitally sign the bundle.

13. The system of any claim 1 wherein the system comprises an integrated development environment tool platform.

14. A method for coordinating the development of a component-based application, the method comprising:

providing a modeling module and interface for defining the application a plurality of application artifacts using an interconnected model of objects, the application for execution by a client device and a supporting stateful proxy gateway to process messages communicated over a network between the client device and an external data source via the gateway;

providing a build module for packaging the application artifacts in a bundle; and

receiving user input via said interface and generating an application in response including a packaged bundle.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the modeling module is adapted to serialize the interconnected model of objects in a first format of a structured definition language for development use and wherein the build module transforms a serialization of the model of objects for the application in the first format to a second compact format for runtime use to package in the bundle.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the build model packages application artifacts in the bundle comprising one or more of:

an expression of the model of objects for the application, a service descriptor (WSDL), a mapping descriptor, a resource descriptor, a catalog and a manifest.

17. The method of claim 14 including providing a deployment module for distributing the application through a registry and a file repository;

and distributing the application in response to user input.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the deployment module is adapted to deposit the bundle in the file repository including a service descriptor for the application.

19. The method of any claim 17 wherein the deployment module is adapted to define a deployment descriptor for the application for publishing to the registry.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein the deployment module is adapted to define a service descriptor for the application and include the service descriptor in the bundle for the file repository.

21. The method of claim 17 wherein the deployment module is adapted to configure options for distributing the application.

22. The method of claim 17 wherein the deployment module is adapted to update an end-point for the application.

23. The method of claim 17 wherein the deployment module is adapted to verify at least one of a file repository and a registry for use.

24. The method of claim 17 including providing a security module to adapt at least one of the build module and deployment module to digitally sign the bundle.

25. The method of claim 14 wherein the modules comprise an integrated development environment tool platform.

26. A machine readable medium comprising program code means executable on a computer having a programmable processor for implementing the method of claim 14.