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MANAGING CONSISTENT INTERFACES FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS

  • US 20090222360A1
  • Filed: 06/26/2008
  • Published: 09/03/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for performing an individual material bill of material service, the interface exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry, wherein upon execution the program code executes in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services and comprises:

  • program code for receiving, from a service consumer, a first message for processing information for a list that comprises the elements defining and describing the components to assemble an individual material bill of material;

    program code for invoking an individual material bill of material business object, wherein the business object is a logically centralized, semantically disjointed object for representing information for a list that comprises the elements defining and describing the components to assemble an individual material bill of material, and comprises data logically organized as;

    an individual material bill of material root node; and

    a variant subordinate node and wherein the variant node contains;

    a location subordinate node; and

    an item subordinate node and wherein the item node contains a change state subordinate node; and

    program code for initiating transmission of a message to a heterogeneous second application, executing in the environment of computer systems providing message-based services, based on the data in the individual material bill of material business object, the message comprising an individual material bill of material message entity, a message header package, and an individual material bill of material package.

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