Flex integration with a secure application

• US 20100192166A1
• Filed: 01/29/2009
• Published: 07/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Jhaveri, Pankesh, Sudhi, Ambili, Kumar, Darshan, Achar, Govindraja
• Granted Patent: US 9,063,806 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/328
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/548 Object oriented; Remote method invocation [RMI] non-remote method invocation G06F9/449

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided that facilitate communication between an Flex application and a secure Enterprise Application System. An embodiment comprises the EAS, an ActiveX control container provided by the EAS to communicate via Javascript, and a container web page including a Flex application and a Javascript function to invoke the Flex application, wherein the EAS can invoke the Flex application.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating communication between a Flex application and a secure Enterprise Application System (“

EAS”

), comprising;

sending a notification to a control container to invoke a Flex method;

making a Javascript call from the control container to invoke a Javascript function in a container web page having the Flex application; and

invoking the Flex method by the Javascript function.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification includes a name and at least one argument for the Flex method.

3. The method claim 1, wherein data passed between the base platform and the control container is in XML format.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the base platform is customer relationship management software.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the base platform is Oracle®

Life Sciences.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the Flex application is a graphical user interface.

7. A computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to facilitate communication between a Flex application and a secure Enterprise Application System (“

EAS”

) by;

invoking by the Flex application a Javascript function to call a base platform method;

invoking by the Javascript function a container method in a control container of the base platform; and

calling by the control container the base platform method.

8. The computer-readable medium claim 7, wherein data passed between the base platform and the control container is in XML format.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the base platform is customer relationship management software.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the base platform is Oracle®

Life Sciences.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the Flex application is a graphical user interface.

12. A system for facilitating communication between an Flex application and a secure Enterprise Application System (“

EAS”

), comprising;

the EAS;

an control container provided by the EAS to communicate via Javascript; and

a container web page including a Flex application and a Javascript function to invoke the Flex application, wherein the EAS can invoke the Flex application.

13. A system for facilitating communication between an Flex application and a secure Enterprise Application System (“

EAS”

), comprising;

means for sending a notification to a control container to invoke a Flex method;

means for making a Javascript call from control container to invoke a Javascript function in a container web page having the Flex application; and

means for invoking the Flex method by the Javascript function.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the control container is an ActiveX control container.