Propagation and adoption of extensions across applications in networked solutions

• US 9,077,717 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2012
• Issued: 07/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Said, Bare, Eberlein, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): GOLABBAKHSH, EBRAHIM
• Application Number:
  US13/690,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20140156724A1
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for adoption of an extension of a service across networked applications. One process includes receiving, by a target platform operating a target networked application, a data package associated with the extension, the data package comprising data specifying the service to be extended and information associated with a technology of a source platform at which the data package was created, extracting a portion of the data from the data package, and implementing the extracted portion of the data in the service of the target application.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for adoption of an extension of a service across networked applications, the method comprising:

receiving, by a target networked application operated by a target platform, a data package associated with the extension, wherein the extension is applied to a source networked application operated by a source platform, wherein the source networked application is different than the target networked application, the data package comprising data specifying the service to be extended and information specifying at least one of structure and implementation logic of the service to be extended specific to a technology of the source platform at which the data package was created;

extracting a portion of the data from the data package; and

implementing the extracted portion of the data in the service of the target application based on the information specifying at least one of the structure and the implementation logic within the data package.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating the data package at the source platform, wherein the source platform operates a source networked application that is communicatively coupled to the target networked application or to a cloud solution directory; and

announcing creation of the data package.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the data specifying the service to be extended comprises metadata of the extension of the service, and wherein the data and the information of the data package are arranged in a data structure configured to be propagated across the networked applications, the networked applications comprising the source networked application and the target networked application.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the source platform and the target platform are based on different technologies, wherein the technologies are different by at least one of operating system, hardware infrastructure and software development platform.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the networked applications comprise the target networked application and the source networked application and the networked applications being distributed within a network, wherein the network is a cloud-computing environment including a cloud solution directory and the method is further comprising:

discovering announcement of the data package.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein upon creating the data package at the source platform, the data package being transmitted to the cloud solution directory where the data package being accessible on demand by the target networked application, or where the data package being accessible during the discovering when the associated service is accessed by the target networked application.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein upon creating the data package at the source platform, the data package is transmitted to the target networked application connected via a peer-to-peer connection with the source networked application.

8. A computer program product encoded on a non-transitory, tangible storage medium, the product comprising computer readable instructions for causing one or more processors to perform operations for adoption of an extension of a service across networked applications, the operations comprising:

receiving, by a target networked application operated by a target platform, a data package associated with the extension, wherein the extension is applied to a source networked application operated by a source platform, wherein the source networked application is different than the target networked application, the data package comprising data specifying the service to be extended and information specifying at least one of structure and implementation logic of the service to be extended specific to a technology of the source platform at which the data package was created;

extracting a portion of the data from the data package; and

implementing the extracted portion of the data in the service of the target application based on the information specifying at least one of the structure and the implementation logic within the data package.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, further comprising:

creating the data package at the source platform, wherein the source platform operates a source networked application that is communicatively coupled to the target networked application or to a cloud solution directory; and

announcing creation of the data package.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the data specifying the service to be extended comprises metadata of the extension of the service, and wherein the data and the information of the data package are arranged in a data structure configured to be propagated across the networked applications, the networked applications comprising the source networked application and the target networked application.

11. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the source platform and the target platform are based on different technologies, wherein the technologies are different by at least one of operating system, hardware infrastructure and software development platform.

12. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the networked applications comprise the target networked application and the source networked application and the networked applications being distributed within a network, wherein the network is a cloud-computing environment including a cloud solution directory and the method is further comprising:

discovering announcement of the data package.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein upon creating the data package at the source platform, the data package being transmitted to the cloud solution directory where the data package being accessible on demand by the target networked application, or where the data package being accessible during the discovering when the associated service is accessed by the target networked application.

14. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein upon creating the data package at the source platform, the data package being transmitted to the target networked application that is connected via a peer-to-peer connection with the source networked application.

15. A system, comprising:

one or more computers; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations for adoption of an extension of a service across networked applications, the operations comprising;

receiving, by a target networked application operated by a target platform, a data package associated with the extension, wherein the extension is applied to a source networked application operated by a source platform, wherein the target platform and the source platform are a common platform, and wherein the source networked application is different than the target networked application, the data package comprising data specifying the service to be extended and information specifying at least one of structure and implementation logic of the service to be extended specific to a technology of the source platform at which the data package was created;

extracting a portion of the data from the data package; and

implementing the extracted portion of the data in the service of the target application based on the information specifying at least one of the structure and the implementation logic within the data package.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

creating the data package at the source platform, wherein the source platform operates a source networked application that is communicatively coupled to the target networked application or to a cloud solution directory; and

announcing creation of the data package.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the data specifying the service to be extended comprises metadata of the extension of the service, and wherein the data and the information of the data package are arranged in a data structure configured to be propagated across the networked applications, the networked applications comprising the source networked application and the target networked application.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the networked applications comprise the target networked application and the source networked application and the networked applications being distributed within a network, wherein the network is a cloud-computing environment including a cloud solution directory and the method is further comprising:

discovering announcement of the data package.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein upon creating the data package at the source platform, the data package being transmitted to the cloud solution directory where the data package being accessible on demand by the target networked application, or where the data package being accessible during the discovering when the associated service is accessed by the target networked application.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein upon creating the data package at the source platform, the data package being transmitted to the target networked application that is connected via a peer-to-peer connection with the source networked application.

21. A system, comprising:

one or more computers; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations for adoption of an extension of a service across networked applications, the operations comprising;

creating, by a source networked application operated by a source platform, a data package associated with the extension to the source networked application, the data package comprising data specifying the service to be extended and information specifying at least one of structure and implementation logic of the service to be extended specific to a technology on which the source platform is based on, wherein the data and the information of the data package are arranged in a data structure configured to be propagated across the networked applications, the networked applications comprising the source networked application and a target networked application, and wherein the source networked application is communicatively coupled to the target networked application or to a cloud solution directory;

announcing creation of the data package;

discovering announcement of the data package;

receiving, by the target networked application operated by the target platform, the data package associated with the extension to the source networked application, wherein the source networked application is different than the target networked application;

extracting a portion of the data from the data package; and

implementing the extracted portion of the data in the service of the target application based on the information specifying at least one of the structure and the implementation logic within the data package.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the technology of the source platform is different from a technology the target platform is based on by at least one of operating system, hardware infrastructure and software development platform.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the data package further comprising additional data associated with an entity related to the service, wherein the additional data specifying an extension of the entity, and wherein the service to be extended is a generic extension of a service interface of the networked applications and the related entity is a business object or a user interface.