INTER-APPLICATION TRANSFORM BUILDER FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONS

• US 20150058833A1
• Filed: 08/20/2013
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: VENKATA NAGA RAVI, Kiran Vedula
• Granted Patent: US 9,411,562 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/40 Transformation of program code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/43 Checking; Contextual analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/45 Exploiting coarse grain parallelism in compilation, i.e. parallelism between groups of instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons

Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product for customization of flows between software applications. A system implementation commences by associating a first application with a first graphical object descriptor, and by associating a second application with a second graphical object descriptor. A graphical user interface such as an integrated development environment is used to drag/drop the graphical object descriptors and other graphical objects to form logical connections between the first graphical object descriptor and the second graphical object descriptor. The installation of an application is modified (e.g., using a patch), which modification is performed based at least in part on the logical connections. The logical connections between the applications handles inter-application communication such that upon executing the modified first application at least some outputs from the modified first application are processed using the logical connection to produce modified first application results which are in turn received by the second application.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

associating a first application with a first graphical object descriptor;

associating a second application with a second graphical object descriptor;

forming a logical connection between the first graphical object descriptor and the second graphical object descriptor;

modifying a behavior of the first application, the modification based at least in part on the logical connection; and

executing, in a processor, the modified first application wherein at least some outputs from the modified first application are processed using the logical connection to produce modified first application results.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising forming an association between the first graphical object descriptor and a first control object descriptor.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the first control object descriptor defines at least one of, a protocol, a version, an application programming interface, or a data element.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising forming an association between the second graphical object descriptor and a second control object descriptor.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the second control object descriptor defines at least one of, a protocol, a version, an application programming interface, or a data element.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first graphical object descriptor is an integrated development environment widget.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the first application comprises applying one or more patches to the first application.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing a periodic assessment of an inventory list.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing a periodic assessment of application interfacing details.

10. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor causes the processor to execute a process, the process comprising:

associating a first application with a first graphical object descriptor;

associating a second application with a second graphical object descriptor;

forming a logical connection between the first graphical object descriptor and the second graphical object descriptor;

modifying a behavior of the first application, the modification based at least in part on the logical connection; and

executing the modified first application wherein at least some outputs from the modified first application are processed using the logical connection to produce modified first application results.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising instructions for forming an association between the first graphical object descriptor and a first control object descriptor.

12. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein the first control object descriptor defines at least one of, a protocol, a version, an application programming interface, or a data element.

13. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising instructions for forming an association between the second graphical object descriptor and a second control object descriptor.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the second control object descriptor defines at least one of, a protocol, a version, an application programming interface, or a data element.

15. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the first graphical object descriptor is an integrated development environment widget.

16. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein modifying the first application comprises applying one or more patches to the first application.

17. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising instructions for performing a periodic assessment of an inventory list.

18. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising instructions for performing a periodic assessment of application interfacing details.

19. A computer system comprising:

a first memory area to associate a first application with a first graphical object descriptor and to associate a second application with a second graphical object descriptor;

a second memory area used to form a logical connection between the first graphical object descriptor and the second graphical object descriptor;

a third memory area to hold memory values pertaining to a modified behavior of the first application, the modification based at least in part on the logical connection; and

a processor to execute the modified first application wherein at least some outputs from the modified first application are processed using the logical connection to produce modified first application results.

20. The computer system of claim 19, further comprising a second application to receive at least some of the outputs of the modified first application.