Portable metadata service framework

• US 7,886,018 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2006
• Issued: 02/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation), Siebel Systems Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Datuashvili, George, Tseitlin, Ariel D., Kearns, Daniel, Arnaiz, Gilberto
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang; Liangche A
• Application Number:
  US11/426,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20070250606A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,691 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 709/226, 709/201, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219, 709/229
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/41 Compilation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/51 Source to source
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/76 Adapting program code to run in a different environment; Porting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A method is provided. The method determines a set of components to include in an enterprise module. Further, the set of components is divided into a set of platform dependent components and a set of platform independent components. In addition, abstract computer code is prepared for each of the components in the set of platform dependent components according to at least one of a plurality of high-level abstract computer languages. Further, the abstract computer code is provided to a transmogrifier to automatically generate platform dependent source code. In addition, the platform independent source code is prepared for the set of platform independent components. The enterprise object code is generated by compiling and linking the platform dependent source code and the platform independent source code.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which when executed perform a method comprising:

determining a set of components to include in an enterprise module;

dividing the set of components into a set of platform dependent components and a set of platform independent components;

preparing abstract computer code for each of the components in the set of platform dependent components according to at least one of a plurality of high-level abstract computer languages;

automatically generating a plurality of platform dependent artifacts from the abstract computer code;

preparing platform independent source code for the set of platform independent components;

generating enterprise object code by compiling and linking the platform independent source code and at least a subset of the plurality of platform dependent artifacts with an intersection library and a portable library; and

packaging the platform dependent object code and the plurality of platform dependent artifacts into an enterprise module.

2. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes platform dependent source code.

3. The machine readable medium of claim 2, wherein the subset of the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes the platform dependent source code.

4. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes metadata.

5. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes deployment descriptors.

6. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of platform dependent artifacts includes code written in XML Schema Definition.

7. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of dependent artifacts includes code written in Web Services Description Language.

8. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of dependent artifacts includes Bytecode.

9. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of dependent artifacts includes International resources.

10. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of high-level abstract computer languages includes XML.

11. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the plurality of high-level abstract computer languages includes Java.

12. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the platform independent source code is a subset of a plurality of platform independent computer environments.

13. The machine readable medium of claim 12, wherein the subset of the plurality of platform independent computer languages can be compiled on a compiler that supports any of the plurality of platform independent computer environments.

14. The machine readable medium of claim 12, wherein the plurality of platform independent computer environments includes .Net.

15. The machine readable medium of claim 12, wherein the plurality of platform independent computer environments includes J2EE.

16. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises packaging the enterprise object code into an enterprise module.

17. The machine readable medium of claim 16, wherein the enterprise module can be integrated with a customer'"'"'s platform dependent computer application.

18. A computer-implemented method comprising:

determining a set of components to include in an enterprise module;

dividing the set of components into a set of platform dependent components and a set of platform independent components;

preparing abstract computer code for each of the components in the set of platform dependent components according to at least one of a plurality of high-level abstract computer languages;

automatically generating platform dependent source code, by the computer, from the abstract computer code;

preparing platform independent source code for the set of platform independent components;

generating enterprise object code, by the computer, by compiling and linking the platform dependent source code and the platform independent source code with an intersection library and a portable library; and

packaging the enterprise object code into the enterprise module.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the enterprise module can be integrated with a customer'"'"'s platform dependent computer application.

20. The method of claim 18 further comprising automatically generates metadata in addition to the platform dependent source code.