Method and apparatus for persistent tool object

• US 20080134217A1
• Filed: 12/04/2006
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Sun, Yawei
• Granted Patent: US 8,438,535 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/328
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4493 Object persistence

Abstract

A method and an apparatus that execute executable codes to install a persistent object from a storage into an application server to access remote services in an EIS are described. The executable codes are based on relational properties for mapping an API (Application Programming Interface) function of an EIS to an object of a cross-platform connection framework coupling the EIS with the application server. The application server is enabled to access the API function of the EIS via the persistent object as part of the cross-platform connection framework.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

installing a persistent object within an application server from a storage by executing executable codes based on relational properties for mapping an API function of an EIS to an object of a cross-platform connection framework coupling the EIS with the application server; and

accessing the API of the EIS via the persistent object as part of the cross-platform connection framework.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

configuring a parameter for a code generation service, the parameter mapping a first element type of the API function in the EIS to a second element type of the persistent object.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the persistent object is generated by the code generation service.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the plurality of relational properties are generated by the code generation service.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the executable codes are generated by the code generation service.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the accessing further comprises:

activating the API function to generate a data element in the EIS; and

retrieving the data element from the cross-platform connection framework to the application server through the persistent object.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

generating the object in the cross-platform connection framework.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the data element includes the first element type in the EIS and wherein the data element includes the second element type in the cross-platform connection framework.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the persistent object corresponds to a data structure in the application server.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the data structure is a table.

11. A machine-readable medium having instructions therein, which when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform a method, the method comprising:

installing a persistent object within an application server from a storage by executing executable codes based on relational properties for mapping an API function of an EIS to an object of a cross-platform connection framework coupling the EIS with the application server; and

accessing the API of the EIS via the persistent object as part of the cross-platform connection framework.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises:

configuring a parameter for a code generation service, the parameter mapping a first element type of the API function in the EIS to a second element type of the persistent object.

13. The machine-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the persistent object is generated by the code generation service.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the plurality of relational properties are generated by the code generation service.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the executable codes are generated by the code generation service.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the accessing further comprises:

activating the API function to generate a data element in the EIS; and

retrieving the data element from the cross-platform connection framework to the application server through the persistent object.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

generating the object in the a cross-platform connection framework.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the data element includes the first element type in the EIS and wherein the data element includes the second element type in the cross-platform connection framework.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the persistent object corresponds to a data structure in the application server.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the data structure is a table.

21. A data processing system, comprising:

code generation service module to generate executable codes, the executable codes being stored in a storage connected with an application server;

object installation module to install a persistent object within the application server from the storage by executing the executable codes based on relational properties for mapping an API function of an EIS to an object of a cross-platform connection framework coupling the EIS with the application server, the API of the EIS being accessed from the application server via the persistent object as part of the cross-platform connection framework.

22. The data processing system of claim 21, wherein the persistent object is generated by the code generation service module according to a configuration parameter mapping a first element type of the API function in the EIS to a second element type of the persistent object.