Transformation layer

• US 7,823,124 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2006
• Issued: 10/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Viehmann, Robert, Sattler, Juergen, Gaffga, Joachim, Markert, Frank, Wolf, Werner
• Primary Examiner(s): DAS, CHAMELI
• Application Number:
  US11/512,608
• Publication Number:
  US 20080127123A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,519 Days
• Field of Search: 717/117, 717/168, 717/169, 717/173, 717/121, 706/11, 706/45, 706/47, 706/46, 710/11, 715/700, 714/38, 713/1
• US Class Current: 717/117
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

The present subject mater relates to configuration of software applications and, more particularly, a configuration transformation layer. The various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, and software to instantiate a multilayer application, wherein each application layer includes configuration settings and executing a transformation engine to transform configuration settings between application layers as a function of one or more transformation schemas.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor;

a memory device

a multilayer application held in the memory device and executable by the processor, wherein each application layer includes configuration settings;

at least one transformation schema that includes rules to transform configuration settings between application layers and to link at least one configuration setting of a first layer to at least one configuration setting of a second layer according to a set of transformation rules, wherein at least one transformation rule causes the at least one configuration setting of the first layer to be hidden from the at least one configuration setting of the second layer based on the at least one transformation rule conditioning the at least one hidden configuration setting of the first layer on the at least one configuration setting of the second layer; and

a transformation engine executable by the processor to transform configuration settings between application layers as a function of the at least one transformation schema.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the application of the transformation rules:

transforms the at least one configuration setting of the first layer to the at least one configuration setting of the second layer; and

transforms the at least one configuration setting of the second layer to the at least one configuration setting of the first layer.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein a transformation rule transforms a configuration setting of the first layer to at least two configuration settings of the second layer.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein a transformation rule transforms a configuration setting of the second layer to at least two configuration settings of the first layer.

5. A method comprising:

instantiating a multilayer application, wherein each application layer includes configuration settings; and

executing a transformation engine to transform configuration settings between application layers as a function of at least one transformation schema, the at least one transformation schema including a linking of at least one configuration setting of a first layer to at least one configuration setting of a second layer according to a set of transformation rules which, when applied, cause at least one configuration setting of the first layer to be hidden from the at least one configuration setting of the second layer based on at least one transformation rule that conditions the at least one hidden configuration setting of the first layer on the at least one configuration setting of the second layer.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the application of the transformation rules:

transforms the at least one configuration setting of the first layer to the one or more at least one configuration setting of the second layer; and

transforms the at least one configuration setting of the second layer to the at least one configuration setting of the first layer.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein applying a transformation rule transforms a configuration setting of the first layer to at least two configuration settings of the second layer.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein applying a transformation rule transforms a configuration setting of the second layer to at least two configuration settings of the first layer.

9. A non-transient machine-readable storage medium, with stored instructions, which when executed, cause a machine to:

instantiate a multilayer application, wherein each application layer includes configuration settings; and

execute a transformation engine to transform configuration settings between application layers as a function of a transformation schema including rules, the transformation schema including a linking of at least one configuration setting of a first layer to at least one configuration setting of a second layer according to a set of transformation rules which, when applied, cause at least one configuration setting of the first layer to be hidden from the at least one configuration setting of the second layer based on at least one transformation rule that conditions the at least one hidden configuration setting of the first layer on the at least one configuration setting of the second layer.

10. The non-transient machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the application of the transformation rules further causes a machine to:

transform the at least one configuration setting of the first layer to the at least one configuration setting of the second layer; and

transform the at least one configuration setting of the second layer to the at least one configuration setting of the first layer.

11. The non-transient machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein a transformation rule transforms a configuration setting of the first layer to at least two configuration settings of the second layer.