Data processing method compatible with an object modeling formalism

• US 20070006134A1
• Filed: 06/20/2006
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Fontaine, Patrick, Larvet, Philippe
• Application Number:
  US11/455,683
• Publication Number:
  US 20070006134A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques

Abstract

There is disclosed a method of producing a new web service, comprising the steps of: decomposition of data, for example a scenario and/or a use case into modeling elements of the new web service, conforming to an object modeling formalism; creation of an internal object model from the modeling elements; and transformation of modeling elements of the internal object module into modeling elements of an external metamodel. The latter step may be accompanied by a step of generating a code or a step of creating an XMI model via an XMI generator. The invention also concerns a computer program product adapted to implement the method of the invention and a computer file obtained by the method.

Claims

1. A method of producing a new web service, comprising the steps of:

decomposition of a text description into modeling elements of said new web service, conforming to an object modeling formalism;

creation of an internal object model from said modeling elements; and

transformation of modeling elements of said internal object module into modeling elements of an external metamodel.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, in said decomposition step, said text description comprises a scenario and/or a use case.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said decomposition step comprises a grammatical and/or semantic analysis of the data.

4. The processing method of claim 3, wherein said decomposition step further comprises the identification, in the use case:

of a general description of said new web service; and

existing web services liable to be used by said service.

5. The processing method of claim 4 wherein said decomposition step further comprises:

the identification of actors involved in said new service, from said use case; and

the extraction of inputs-outputs of said new service, from said general description of said new web service.

6. The processing method of claim 4, wherein said decomposition step further comprises a reorganization of phases of said scenario.

7. The processing method of claim 6, wherein said decomposition step further comprises the production of logical phrases from reorganized phrases of said scenario.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said external metamodel is an XMI model and said transformation step is a step of creation of said XMI model via an XMI generator.

9. The method of claim 8, comprising, after said step of creating said XMI model:

a step of creating a UML model from said XMI model created.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising, during or after said transformation step:

a step of generating a code.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of creating said internal object module comprises:

a step of valorization of a data structure of said internal object module;

and wherein;

said data structure comprises a plurality of clauses;

each of said clauses is associated with one or more modeling elements of said formalism; and

each of said clauses is entirely declarative.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein each of said clauses relates to a single modeling element.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein each of said clauses comprises a code relating to the modeling element to which it relates and characteristics relating to said modeling element.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein some of said clauses comprise characteristics relating to a container of the modeling element to which it relates.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the formalism of the object modeling is the UML formalism.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the modeling elements of the formalism is:

a package;

a use case;

a class;

an attribute,

an association;

or

a heritage.

17. A computer program product adapted to implement the method of claim 1.

18. A computer file obtained by the method of claim 1.