Method and apparatus for developing composite applications

• US 20070016615A1
• Filed: 09/08/2006
• Published: 01/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FusionOps, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Fusionops Corporation
• Inventors: Mansoor, Shariq, Mohan, Ram
• Granted Patent: US 8,271,541 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates creating a composite application. A model architecture component can model a business rule utilizing at least one node in a novel hierarchical structure. A run-time engine can automatically create a complex, long-running composite application based at least in part upon the hierarchical node structure such that a representative process segments of the application is are invoked by the business rule which, in turn, is invoked by internal, externally generated, asynchronous events

Claims

1. A system that facilitates creating a composite application, comprising:

a model architecture component that models a business rule utilizing at least one node in a hierarchical structure; and

a dynamic engine that automatically creates a dynamically-updateable composite application based at least in part upon the hierarchical node structure such that a representative process workflow of the application is dictated by the business rule.

2. The system of claim 1, the composite application is at least one of the following:

a business application;

a web page;

a document;

an electronic mail message;

an electronic document, a hypertext markup language (HTML) document;

a complex interactive website; and

a website.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising an interface component that receives at least one of a user input and the business rule.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a data store that stores at least one of a template of nodes, a node, a node property, a template representing a particular process comprising of at least one node, a business rule, a node structure that correlates to a business rule, a pallet of nodes that can be strung together to create a process, a pre-defined node, a particular functionality employed by at least one node, a user-defined node, a model architecture, a depth-first execution (DFE) approach, a execution flow of a hierarchical node structure, a user interface, a visual layout of a node pallet, a user interface to employ creation of a composite application utilizing a node pallet, a node execution sequence, and a node execution rule.

5. The system of claim 1, the composite application interacts with at least one of a mobile communication device, a computer, a machine, a laptop, a tablet pc, a pocket pc, a portable digital assistant (PDA), a document, an electronic document, and an electronic mail message.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a business rule (BR) component that analyzes received data related to correlating at least one node to the business rule in order to provide a node structure that enables functionality for the composite functionality separate of an aesthetic feature of the composite application.

7. The system of claim 6, the received data relates to at least one of a user input, a business rule, and a proposed functionality.

8. The system of claim 6, further comprising an aesthetics component that employs the aesthetic feature of the composite application separate of the functionality for the composite application.

9. The system of claim 8, the aesthetic feature is applied to a user interface associated with the composite application.

10. The system of claim 9, the node structure related to the business rule employs a plurality of “

skins”

that can manipulate at least one of a look, a feel, and an appearance of the composite application.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a node cluster that is one or more nodes that perform a process related to the business rule.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising one or more node clusters that communicate therewith to provide the composite application.

13. The system of claim 11, the node cluster relates to at least one of the following:

a composite application function, a process associated with the composite application, a login process, an inventory browsing process, a shopping cart process, a check-out process, and a confirmation process.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising a security component that enables granular security in connection with at least one of the following:

a user;

a node;

a node characteristic;

a node cluster;

a process;

a business rule;

a composite application;

a manipulation associated with a node; and

an alteration associated with a composite application.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising a report generator that generates at least one report in accordance with the composite application.

16. The system of claim 1, the model architecture component employs a depth-first approach to automatically create the composite application that is optimized based on an elimination of an edge related to a complexity of a process.

17. A computer-implemented method that facilitates automatically generating a complex application, comprising:

receiving a business rule;

corresponding at least one node to the business rule; and

executing the at least one node to automatically create a complex application based at least on the business rule and a business workflow.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

receiving a user input;

clustering one or more nodes to create a node cluster that performs a process;

providing a dynamic update of the complex application in real-time upon manipulation of a node associated with the complex application.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

utilizing at least one node to provide an aesthetic feature

utilizing a disparate at least one node to provide a functionality associated with the business rule; and

maintaining a separation of the aesthetic feature node and the functionality node to allow a purity between the aesthetic feature of the complex application and the functionality of the complex application.

20. A computer-implemented system that facilitates, comprising:

means for modeling a business rule utilizing at least one node in a hierarchical structure; and

means for automatically creates a dynamically-updateable composite application based at least in part upon the hierarchical node structure such that a representative process workflow of the application is dictated by the business rule.