PORTABLE METADATA SERVICE FRAMEWORK

• US 20070250606A1
• Filed: 06/23/2006
• Published: 10/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation), Siebel Systems Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Arnaiz, Gilberto, Datuashvili, George, Kearns, Daniel, Tseitlin, Ariel
• Granted Patent: US 7,886,018 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/41 Compilation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/51 Source to source
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/76 Adapting program code to run in a different environment; Porting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A method is provided. The method determines a set of components to include in an enterprise module. Further, the set of components is divided into a set of platform dependent components and a set of platform independent components. In addition, abstract computer code is prepared for each of the components in the set of platform dependent components according to at least one of a plurality of high-level abstract computer languages. Further, the abstract computer code is provided to a transmogrifier to automatically generate platform dependent source code. In addition, the platform independent source code is prepared for the set of platform independent components. The enterprise object code is generated by compiling and linking the platform dependent source code and the platform independent source code.

Claims

1. A machine readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which when executed perform a method comprising:

determining a set of components to include in an enterprise module;

dividing the set of components into a set of platform dependent components and a set of platform independent components;

preparing abstract computer code for each of the components in the set of platform dependent components according to at least one of a plurality of high-level abstract computer languages;

providing the abstract computer code to a transmogrifier to automatically generate a plurality of platform dependent artifacts;

preparing platform independent source code for the set of platform independent components;

generating enterprise object code by compiling and linking the platform independent source code and at least a subset of the plurality of platform dependent artifacts; and

packaging the platform dependent object code and the plurality of platform dependent artifacts into an enterprise module.

2. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises compiling and linking the platform independent source code and at least a subset of the plurality of platform dependent artifacts with an intersection library and a portable library.

3. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes platform dependent source code.

4. The machine readable medium of claim 3, wherein the subset of the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes the platform dependent source code.

5. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes metadata.

6. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes deployment descriptors.

7. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes code written in XML Schema Definition.

8. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of dependent artifacts includes code written in Web Services Description Language.

9. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of dependent artifacts includes Bytecode.

10. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of dependent artifacts includes International resources.

11. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of high-level abstract computer languages includes XML.

12. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of high-level abstract computer languages includes Java.

13. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the platform independent source code is a subset of a plurality of platform independent computer environments.

14. The machine readable medium of claim 13, wherein the subset of the plurality of platform independent computer languages can be compiled on a compiler that supports any of the plurality of platform independent computer environments.

15. The machine readable medium of claim 13, wherein the plurality of platform independent computer environments includes .Net.

16. The machine readable medium of claim 13, wherein the plurality of platform independent computer environments includes J2EE.

17. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises packaging the enterprise object code into an enterprise module.

18. The machine readable medium of claim 17, wherein the enterprise module can be integrated with a customer'"'"'s platform dependent computer application.

19. A method comprising:

determining a set of components to include in an enterprise module;

dividing the set of components into a set of platform dependent components and a set of platform independent components;

preparing abstract computer code for each of the components in the set of platform dependent components according to at least one of a plurality of high-level abstract computer languages;

providing the abstract computer code to a transmogrifier to automatically generate platform dependent source code;

preparing platform independent source code for the set of platform independent components; and

generating enterprise object code by compiling and linking the platform dependent source code and the platform independent source code.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising packaging the enterprise object code into an enterprise module.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the enterprise module can be integrated with a customer'"'"'s platform dependent computer application.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the transmogrifier automatically generates metadata in addition to the platform dependent source code.

23. A system comprising:

a unit that selects an enterprise module from a plurality of enterprise modules, the plurality of enterprise modules composing an enterprise application, each of the enterprise modules including enterprise object code generated from platform independent source code and at least a subset of a plurality of platform dependent artifacts;

a unit that provides the enterprise module to an application server, the application server having stored thereon a software application generated from platform dependent object code; and

a unit that integrates the enterprise module with the software application.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes platform dependent source code.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the subset of the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes the platform dependent source code.

26. The system of claim 23, wherein the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes metadata.

27. The system of claim 23, wherein the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes deployment descriptors.

28. The system of claim 23, wherein the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes code written in XML Schema Definition.

29. The system of claim 23, wherein the plurality of dependent artifacts includes code written in Web Services Description Language.

30. The system of claim 23, wherein the plurality of dependent artifacts includes Bytecode.

31. The system of claim 23, wherein the plurality of dependent artifacts includes International resources.