ENTERPRISE COMPUTING PLATFORM

• US 20130047135A1
• Filed: 11/29/2011
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Infosys Limited
• Original Assignee: Infosys Limited
• Inventors: Joshi, Dinesh Govind, Shivaram, Mahesh Huyilalu, Aradhya, Vinoop, Kaushik, Ganesan, Baskaran, Subramanian
• Granted Patent: US 9,513,874 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/120
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code

Abstract

Various technologies related to an enterprise computing platform are presented. A new level of software development can be achieved by avoiding the coding process. An enterprise computing platform having a variety of frameworks can be configured to operate in a variety of business domains. Features such as parallel computing, distributed computing, logical documents, document transformation, space visualization, data security, and others can be accomplished via configuration rather than coding. Considerable efficiency improvements in the software development process can be realized.

Claims

1. One or more computer-readable devices comprising computer-executable instructions for performing a method comprising:

in an extensible view architecture framework, receiving a request to interact with a document;

responsive to receiving the request, processing the request according to configuration information stored for the extensible view architecture framework;

collecting content of one or more logical document elements from one or more locations within a data source;

constructing a logical view of the document based on the one or more logical document elements; and

providing access to the logical view for consumption by a view provider;

wherein the logical view is of a format for consumption by a plurality of different view provider types.

2. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 1 wherein:

the logical view is encapsulated in one or more programming objects of an object class derived from a domain-independent base class.

3. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 1 wherein:

the extensible view architecture framework supports entities other than documents; and

the entities other than documents and the documents inherit from a base entity class.

4. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 1 wherein:

processing the request according to configuration information comprises directing a method call to a programming object of an object class specified in the configuration information.

5. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 4 wherein:

the configuration information supports references to domain-specific object classes that derive from domain-independent object classes.

6. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 1 wherein:

the document is represented by a class derived from a domain-independent entity class; and

the class derived from the domain-independent entity class contains domain-specific callable methods for processing domain-specific aspects of the document.

7. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 1 wherein:

the extensible view architecture framework supports location independence.

8. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 1 further comprising:

representing the document internally as a logical document comprising one or more logical document elements, wherein the content of the one or more logical document elements are stored as source documents in one or more locations within a data source.

9. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 1 further comprising:

representing a logical view of the document, wherein the logical view is based on the logical document.

10. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 9 further comprising:

instantiating a view manager as a view manager programming object; and

managing the logical view with the view manager.

11. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 10 wherein:

the view manager programming object is of an object class derived from a domain-independent object class.

12. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 11 wherein:

the domain-independent object class comprises;

a callable method creating a programming object representing the logical view.

13. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 9 further comprising:

instantiating the logical view as a logical view programming object;

wherein the logical view programming object is of an object class derived from a domain-independent object class.

14. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 13 wherein:

the domain-independent object class comprises;

a callable method drawing the logical view; and

a callable method capturing the logical view.

15. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 9 wherein:

the logical view is of a view-provider-independent form.

16. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 15 wherein providing access comprises:

providing a reference to the logical document to a view provider for translation from a logical view to a rendered view.

17. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 16 further comprising:

presenting the rendered view, wherein the presenting visually presents a presentation of the document.

18. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 1 wherein:

collecting content comprises accessing a serialized version of content of the document in a database;

drawing content of one or more logical view elements from the serialized version of the content of the document; and

constructing the logical view comprises representing the content of the one or more logical view elements in memory as the logical view.

19. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 8 further comprising:

storing hierarchical relationships within the document; and

outputting the hierarchical relationships to a view provider for presentation by the view provider.

20. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 1 further comprising:

storing rules for document transformation for a plurality of entities; and

in an enterprise automation framework, applying the rules for respective of the entities, the applying generating a plurality of transformed documents comprising the document.

21. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 20 further comprising:

storing availability and capacity information for a plurality of servers; and

based on the availability and capacity information for the plurality of servers, in an enterprise computing framework, sending a job to a server;

wherein the job performs the generating for the document;

based on the availability and capacity information for the plurality of servers, in an enterprise computing framework, sending an other job to an other server; and

wherein the job performs the generating for an other document.

22. The one or more computer-readable devices of claim 21 further comprising:

in an enterprise resource and services management framework, storing configuration information for a plurality of other frameworks.

23. A method implemented at least in part by one or more computing devices, the method comprising:

receiving a request for a view of a document;

responsive to the request, accessing a logical document comprising one or more logical document elements of the document, wherein accessing the logical document comprises calling at least one method on at least one programming object representing the logical document, wherein the at least one programming object is configured to provide content of the document; and

further responsive to the request, providing the content of the logical document as represented by the at least one programming object representing the logical document.

24. One or more computer-readable devices comprising computer-executable instructions for performing the method of claim 23.

25. The method of claim 23 further comprising:

representing one logical view out of a plurality of logical views with a programming object representing the logical view;

providing access to the programming object representing the logical view;

receiving a method call on the programming object representing the logical view to provide the logical view for display as a rendered view; and

responsive to the method call, providing content in a view-provider-independent format for display as the rendered view.

26. The method of claim 23 wherein:

the logical document is represented by a domain-independent entity object class representing an entity.

27. The method of claim 26 wherein:

the domain-independent entity object class comprises the following attributes;

identifier;

meta type;

one or more serialization attributes; and

one or more security attributes.

28. The method of claim 27 wherein:

the meta type specifies whether that the entity is a document.

29. The method of claim 27 wherein:

the meta type supports specifying that the entity is a document, a view, a business object, and a use case.

30. The method of claim 23 wherein:

the logical document is represented by an object class having domain-specific features; and

the object class having domain-specific features is derived from a domain-independent entity object class.

31. The method of claim 23 wherein:

the logical document is represented by a more domain-specific object class having more domain-specific features, and the object class is derived from a lesser domain-specific object class having lesser domain-specific features; and

the lesser domain-specific object class is derived from a domain-independent entity object class.

32. The method of claim 23 wherein:

the document is a document type out of a plurality of document types; and

features are provided for the logical document by a configurable framework according to configuration information stored as associated with the document type.

33. The method of claim 32 wherein the features comprise:

whether a document is a compound document.

34. The method of claim 32 wherein the features comprise:

encryption.

35. A computer-implemented method of processing a document of a document type, the method comprising:

in a computer system comprising a processor, representing a logical view of the document for consumption by a view provider out of a plurality of view providers, wherein the logical view of the document is represented via an entity object or a class derived from the entity object;

representing a logical document, wherein the logical document comprises one or more logical document elements taken from scattered locations in a data source, and the logical document filters data from the scattered locations in the data source, wherein the logical document is represented via the entity object or a class derived from the entity object;

storing configuration information for the document type, wherein the configuration information comprises a meta type indicating that the document is a document;

receiving a request to view the document;

responsive to the request, calling a method on an object class for providing content of the document, wherein the object class is derived from a domain-independent object class for providing content of an entity; and

sending the content to the view provider for rendering as a physical view of the document.

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