System integration system and method

• US 20070214459A1
• Filed: 06/27/2002
• Published: 09/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siebel Systems Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Hsiao, Chiun-Feng, Liou, Ming-Tao, Wei, Shan, Finnerty, Martin
• Granted Patent: US 7,685,314 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/315
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications

Abstract

The present invention provides a system and method that facilitates system integration through standardized messages. In one embodiment, standardized-message processing is enabled through the configuration of internal and external integration objects through a user interface.

Claims

1-18. -18. (canceled)

19. A system integration method for facilitating the processing of message data from messages sent between a first application recognizing messages of a first format and a second application recognizing messages of a second format but not the first format, the method comprising:

selecting a document type definition (DTD) file;

creating a first integration object, wherein

said first integration object comprises a first set of components selected from the DTD file,

said first set of components are associated with a header portion of a standardized message type, and

creating a second integration object, wherein

said second integration object comprises a second set of components selected from the DTD file,

said second set of components are associated with a transaction portion of said standardized message type, and

at said first application, processing a message of said standardized message type received from said second application, wherein said processing is based, at least in part, on said created first and second integration objects.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein said processing comprises:

replacing tag information from said received message with at least one component included in said first integration object and with at least one component included in said second integration object;

identifying an object exclusive to said first application; and

mapping said at least one component included in said first integration object and said at least one component included in said second integration object to component fields in said object exclusive to said first application, wherein

said object exclusive to said first application performs data processing within the system, wherein said data processing comprises processing of data in the received message, and

the object exclusive to the first application is otherwise unable recognize the format of the received message.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein said first integration object is an envelope integration object.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein said second integration object is an external request integration object.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein said second integration object is an external response integration object.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein said standardized message is an extensible markup language message.