Service-Oriented Architecture System and Method

• US 20090234860A1
• Filed: 01/07/2009
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rolta International, Inc. (Rolta India Limited)
• Original Assignee: Rolta International, Inc. (Rolta India Limited)
• Inventors: Brown, Bradley D.
• Application Number:
  US12/349,821
• Publication Number:
  US 20090234860A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A system of the present disclosure has a first computing device storing an external data source in memory. Further, the system has logic that retrieves data indicative of services and/or objects related to the external data source and generates data identifying the location of the services and/or objects and how the services and/or objects behave. The logic further generates logic for connecting to the services and/or objects.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a first computing device storing an external data source in memory; and

first logic configured to retrieve data indicative of services and/or objects related to the external data source and generate data identifying the location of the services and/or objects and how the services and/or objects behave, the logic further configured to generate second logic for connecting to the services and/or objects.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first logic is configured deploy the second logic and the data to one or more application computing devices.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein application logic stored in memory on the application computing device communicates with the external data source through the second logic.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first logic is configured to discover a plurality of external data sources on a network.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the first logic is configured to display external data source data indentifying the plurality of external data sources available on a network to a user.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the first logic is configured to receive a selection via an input device indicating at least one external data source from the external data source data.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the first logic is configured to discover one or more services and/or objects from the at least one selected external data source.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the first logic is configured to display service and/or object data identifying the one or more services and/or objects discovered.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the first logic is configured to receive a selection via an input device indicating one or more services and/or objects for inclusion in the second logic and data identifying the location of the services and/or objects and how the services and/or objects behave.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the data identifying the location of the services is stored as Uniform Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) data.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the data identifying how the services and/or objects behave is stored as Web Services Description Language (WSDL) data.

12. A method, comprising:

defining services and objects for inclusion in a release parcel based upon selection input from a user, the services and objects identified from a plurality of external data sources;

generating a release parcel, based upon the defining step, comprising data for identifying and describing the selected services and/or objects and comprising logic for communicating with the selected services and/or objects on the external data sources; and

deploying the release parcel to one or more application computing devices.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the defining step further comprises discovering one or more available external data sources on a network.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the defining step further comprises:

displaying identifiers identifying the one or more available external data sources on the network; and

receiving external data source selection data from the user indicative of the external data source from which the user desires to obtain the services and/or objects.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the defining step further comprises:

discovering one or more available services and/or objects of the selected external data sources.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the defining step further comprises:

displaying identifiers identifying the one or more available services and/or objects; and

receiving services and/or object selection data from the user indicative of the services and/or objects the user desires to include in the release parcel.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating step further comprises:

generating Uniform Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) data for the selected services and/or objects.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the generating step further comprises:

generating Web Services Description Language (WSDL) data for the selected services and/or objects.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the deploying step further comprises:

Displaying a list of available application computing devices to the user; and

receiving application computing device selection data indicative of one or more of the displayed application computing devices to which the user desires to deploy the release parcel.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the deploying step further comprises:

deploying the release parcel to each of the one or more selected application computing devices.