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Extensible distributed enterprise application integration system

  • US 6,738,975 B1
  • Filed: 10/05/1999
  • Issued: 05/18/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for integrating a plurality of computer applications, comprising:

  • an enterprise messaging system, said enterprise messaging system passing messages between said computer applications;

    a database storage system coupled to said enterprise messaging system, said database storage system storing a plurality of data transformation configurations and a plurality of rules;

    an integration service coupled to said enterprise messaging system, said integration service comprising a data transformation engine using the data transformation configurations stored in said database storage system and a rules evaluation engine using the rules stored in said database storage system;

    a plurality of agent-adapters coupled to said enterprise messaging system, each agent-adapter coupled to a respective one of said computer applications, each agent-adapter passing messages between said enterprise messaging system and said respective computer application, wherein each said agent-adapter comprises an adapter portion including an object and an agent portion encapsulating said object and each said adapter is selected from the group consisting of a source adapter, a target adapter, and a reply adapter; and

    a message schema operating in conjunction with said agent-adapters to parse individual message elements from the computer applications.

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