System integration system and method

• US 7,685,314 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2002
• Issued: 03/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siebel Systems Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Finnerty, Martin Joseph, Wei, Shan, Hsiao, Chiun-Feng, Liou, Ming-Tao
• Primary Examiner(s): Blair; Douglas B
• Application Number:
  US10/183,020
• Publication Number:
  US 20070214459A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,826 Days
• Field of Search: 709/202, 709/206, 709/246, 715/235, 715/236, 717/111, 717/113
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications

Abstract

The present invention provides a system and method that facilitates system integration through standardized messages. In one embodiment, standardized-message processing is enabled through the configuration of internal and external integration objects through a user interface.

Claims

1. A method for processing of message data from messages sent between a first application recognizing messages of a first format and a second application recognizing messages of a second format but not the first format, the method comprising:

selecting a document type definition (DTD) file using a first graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the DTD file comprises components relating to XML message tags;

creating a first integration object using a second GUI, wherein

said first integration object comprises a first set of components selected from the components of the DTD file,

said first set of components relate to tags that are contained in a message header of a standardized XML request,

creating a second integration object using a third GUI, wherein said second integration object comprises a second set of components selected from the components of the DTD file,

said second set of components relate to tags that are contained in a transactional portion of the standardized XML request,

creating a third integration object using a fourth GUI, wherein said third integration object comprises a third set of components selected from the components of the DTD file,

said third set of components relate to tags that are contained in a transactional portion of a standardized XML response message;

a computer system receiving an XML message from the second application;

the computer system replacing first tags in the received XML message with the first components, respectively, of the first integration object;

the computer system replacing second tags in the received XML message with second components, respectively, of the second integration object;

modifying one or more of the first components of the first integration object without modifying the second and third integration objects;

the computer system receiving a second XML message from the second application;

the computer system replacing first tags in the received second XML message with first components, respectively, of the modified first integration object;

the computer system replacing second tags in the received second XML message with second components, respectively, of the second integration object.

2. The method of claim 1:

the computer system exchanging data of the XML message with a business object (BusObject) that is associated with the second integration object;

wherein the BusObject is exclusive to said first application; and

the computer system mapping said at least one component included in said first integration object and at least one component included in said second integration object to component fields in said BusObject exclusive to said first application, wherein

said BusObject exclusive to said first application performs data processing, wherein said data processing comprises processing of data in the received XML message, and

the BusObject exclusive to the first application is otherwise unable to recognize the format of the received XML message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said first integration object is an envelope integration object.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said second integration object is an external request integration object and said third integration object is an external response integration object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said second integration object is an external response integration object and said third integration object is an external response integration object.