SAP interface definition language (SIDL) serialization framework

• US 8,601,495 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Issued: 12/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Bezukov, Vladislav
• Primary Examiner(s): SEYE, ABDOU K
• Application Number:
  US11/644,389
• Publication Number:
  US 20080154981A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,539 Days
• Field of Search: 719/319
• US Class Current: 719/319
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/74 Reverse engineering; Extracting design information from source code

Abstract

In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving a description of a web service. A serialization framework may be used to convert the received description to the object model associated with the web service by using a layering of the deserialization process (library and metamodel layers) as well as integrating various registry mechanisms such as QName registry for inter-namespace inter-document declarations, namespace serializer registry, and entity container in the serialization framework. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and/or articles are also described.

Claims

1. An article comprising a non-transitory machine-readable medium embodying instructions that when performed by one or more machines result in operations comprising:

receiving a web services description language description of a web service;

using a serialization framework to convert the web services description language description associated with the web service to one or more metamodel objects by using a metamodel of the serialization framework;

defining the serialization framework to include a parser, a registry, and the metamodel;

initiating a library application to control in the serialization framework one or more of the parser, the registry, a serializer, and the metamodel; and

generating, based on the one or more metamodel objects included in the library, a client proxy and a server proxy for interacting with the web service irrespective of a version or a syntax of the web services description language description.

2. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a web services description language description of a web service;

using a serialization framework to convert the web services description language description associated with the web service to one or more metamodel objects by using a metamodel of the serialization framework;

defining the serialization framework to include a parser, a registry, and the metamodel;

initiating a library application to control in the serialization framework one or more of the parser, the registry, a serializer, and the metamodel; and

generating, based on the one or more metamodel objects included in the library, a client proxy and a server proxy for interacting with the web service irrespective of a version or a syntax of the web services description language description.

3. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory, wherein the processor and the memory are configured to perform a method comprising;

receiving a web services description language description of a web service;

using a serialization framework to convert the web services description language description associated with the web service to one or more metamodel objects by using a metamodel of the serialization framework;

defining the serialization framework to include a parser, a registry, and the metamodel;

initiating a library application to control in the serialization framework one or more of the parser, the registry, a serializer, and the metamodel; and

generating, based on the one or more metamodel objects included in the library a client proxy and a server proxy for interacting with the web service irrespective of a version or a syntax of the one or more web services description language description.