Dynamic configuration of multiple sources and source types in a business process

• US 8,768,983 B2
• Filed: 10/04/2006
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kohlscheen, Alan Lee, Krishna, Vikas, Pollyea, Scott William, Srinivasan, Savitha
• Primary Examiner(s): MORRISON, JAY A
• Application Number:
  US11/538,673
• Publication Number:
  US 20080086502A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,827 Days
• Field of Search: 707/104.1, 707/999.107, 707/827
• US Class Current: 707/827
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1734 Details of monitoring file system events, e.g. by the use of hooks, filter drivers, logs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A computer implemented method, data processing system, computer usable program code, and apparatus are provided for dynamically configuring a document sharing system. A document sharing system receives a first request to add a new image file type to the document sharing system. A configuration file is identified for the new image file type to form an identified configuration file. The new image file type is added to the identified configuration file and the identified configuration file is saved as a new configuration file. The new configuration file is used to access files without restarting or recoding the document sharing system.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for dynamically configuring a document sharing system, the computer implemented method comprising:

receiving a first request to add a new image file to a business rules component in the document sharing system including a content manager storage and a document gateway server that has a document gateway storage of which the business rules component is a part, wherein the first request comprises the new image file to be added to the business rules component;

examining the new image file using logical optical character recognition to extract metadata about the new image file from the new image file;

responsive to extracting the metadata from the new image file, identifying a configuration file;

adding the extracted metadata from the new image file to the identified configuration file;

saving the identified configuration file as a new configuration file, wherein the new configuration file is stored in the business rules component;

using the new configuration file to access files without restarting or recoding the document sharing system;

receiving a second request to add a business node to a business rules component in the document sharing system, wherein the request comprises business node metadata;

identifying the business node metadata within the second request in order to create a new front-end adaptor and a new back-end adaptor, wherein the business node metadata identifies a location within a network that captures data for the network, the new front-end adaptor being a data source that uploads an image file to a watched folder of the document gateway storage of the document gateway server;

creating the new front-end adaptor; and

creating the new back-end adaptor, wherein the new back-end adaptor detects the image file has been uploaded by to the watched folder, and responsively processes the image file and stores the image file as processed to a content manager storage to which the new back-end adaptor is connected,

wherein the document gateway server is not directly connected to the content manager storage but rather is indirectly connected to content manager storage via the new back-end adaptor, the new front-end adaptor and the new back-end adaptor each directly connected to the document gateway server, the new back-end adaptor not being able to upload any image file to the watched folder, the new front-end adaptor not being able to process any image file that has been uploaded to the watched folder.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the configuration file is an Extensible Markup Language file.

3. A data processing system comprising:

a bus system;

a communications system connected to the bus system;

a memory connected to the bus system, wherein the memory includes a set of instructions; and

a processing unit connected to the bus system, wherein the processing unit executes the set of instructions to receive a first request to add a new image file to a business rules component in the document sharing system including a content manager storage and a document gateway server that has a document gateway storage of which the business rules component is a part, wherein the first request comprises the new image file to be added to the business rules component;

examine the new image file using logical optical character recognition to extract metadata about the new image file from the new image file;

identify a configuration file responsive to extracting the metadata from the new image file;

add the extracted metadata from the new image file to the identified configuration file;

save the identified configuration file as a new configuration file in the memory, wherein the new configuration file is stored in the business rules component; and

use the new configuration file to access files without restarting or recoding the document sharing system;

and wherein the processing unit further executes the set of instructions to receive a second request to add a business node to a business rules component in the document sharing system, wherein the request comprises business node metadata;

identify the business node metadata within the second request in order to create a new front-end adaptor and a new back-end adaptor, the new front-end adaptor being a data source that uploads an image file to a watched folder of the document gateway storage of the document gateway server, wherein the business node metadata identifies a location within a network that captures data for the network;

create the new front-end adaptor; and

create the new back-end adaptor, wherein the new back-end adaptor detects the image file has been uploaded by to the watched folder, and responsively processes the image file and stores the image file as processed to a content manager storage to which the new back-end adaptor is connected,

wherein the document gateway server is not directly connected to the content manager storage but rather is indirectly connected to content manager storage via the new back-end adaptor, the new front-end adaptor and the new back-end adaptor each directly connected to the document gateway server, the new back-end adaptor not being able to upload any image file to the watched folder, the new front-end adaptor not being able to process any image file that has been uploaded to the watched folder.

4. The data processing system of claim 3, wherein the configuration file is an Extensible Markup Language file.

5. A computer program product comprising a computer storage-type medium storing executable instructions for dynamically configuring a document sharing system, the computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for receiving a first request to add a new image file to a business rules component in the document sharing system including a content manager storage and a document gateway server that has a document gateway storage of which the business rules component is a part, wherein the first request comprises the new image file to be added to the business rules component;

computer usable program code for examining the new image file using logical optical character recognition to extract metadata about the new image file from the new image file;

computer usable program code for responsive to extracting the metadata from the new image file, identifying a configuration file;

computer usable program code for adding the extracted metadata from the new image file to the identified configuration file;

computer usable program code for saving the identified configuration file as a new configuration file, wherein the new configuration file is stored in the business rules component;

computer usable program code for using the new configuration file to access files without restarting or recoding the document sharing system;

computer usable program code for receiving a second request to add a business node to a business rules component in the document sharing system, wherein the request comprises business node metadata;

computer usable program code for identifying the business node metadata within the second request in order to create a new front-end adaptor and a new back-end adaptor, wherein the business node metadata identifies a location within a network that captures data for the network, the new front-end adaptor being a data source that uploads an image file to a watched folder of the document gateway storage of the document gateway server;

computer usable program code for creating the new front-end adaptor; and

computer usable program code for creating the new back-end adaptor, wherein the new back-end adaptor detects the image file has been uploaded by to the watched folder, and responsively processes the image file and stores the image file as processed to a content manager storage to which the new back-end adaptor is connected,

wherein the document gateway server is not directly connected to the content manager storage but rather is indirectly connected to content manager storage via the new back-end adaptor, the new front-end adaptor and the new back-end adaptor each directly connected to the document gateway server, the new back-end adaptor not being able to upload any image file to the watched folder, the new front-end adaptor not being able to process any image file that has been uploaded to the watched folder.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the configuration file is an Extensible Markup Language file.