Method and system for unifying configuration descriptors

• US 9,454,616 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2005
• Issued: 09/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Baikov, Chavdar S., Angelov, Dimitar, Savchenko, Vladimir, Zubev, Alexander, Stoyanova, Dimitrina
• Primary Examiner(s): ZUNIGA ABAD, JACKIE
• Application Number:
  US11/238,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20070073849A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,017 Days
• Field of Search: 709220-222
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications

Abstract

A method and system for unifying configuration files. In one embodiment, a web services configuration file and a web services client configuration file are identified. The web services and web services client configuration files are unified to create a configuration file.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying a web services configuration file;

the web services configuration file comprising a plurality of runtime properties related to a web services configuration;

identifying a web services client configuration file, the web services client configuration file comprising a plurality of runtime properties related to a web services client configuration;

analyzing the runtime properties associated with the web services configuration file and the runtime properties associated with the web services client configuration file to identify a set of common runtime properties and a set of uncommon runtime properties; and

generating a unified configuration file by unifying the web services configuration file and the web services client configuration file and removing the set of uncommon runtime properties from the unified configuration file.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising deploying the unified configuration file at an application server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the unified configuration file is accessed using a plurality of tools, the plurality of tools including configuration tools to access the unified configuration file.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising generating the configuration tools by unifying web services configuration tools and web services client configuration tools.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the plurality of runtime properties related to the web services configuration comprises a web services format; and

the plurality of runtime properties related to a web services client configuration comprises a web services client format;

the method further comprising creating a common format by unifying the web services format and the web services client format.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein creating the common format further comprises generating a format module to create the common format.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the plurality of runtime properties related to the web services configuration comprises a web services framework, and

the plurality of runtime properties related to a web services client configuration comprises a web services client framework;

the method further comprising creating a common framework by unifying the web services framework and the web services client framework.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein creating the common framework further comprises generating a framework module to create the common framework.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein creating the unified configuration file further comprises generating a mapping system to create the unified configuration file, the mapping system to provide direct mapping of one or more of a Web Service Description Language (WSDL) model, a WSDL interface mapping model, and a schema to Java mapping model to a configuration model.

10. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory to store;

a web services configuration file comprising a plurality of runtime properties related to a web services configuration, and

a web services client configuration file comprising a plurality of runtime properties related to a web services client configuration, and

instructions which when executed by the processor provide a mapping system to;

analyze the runtime properties associated with the web services configuration file and the runtime properties associated with the web services client configuration file to identify a set of common runtime properties and a set of uncommon runtime properties,

unify the web services configuration file and the web services client configuration file into a unified configuration file, and

remove the set of uncommon runtime properties from the unified configuration file.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the instructions further provide a format module to create a common format compatible with the web services configuration file and web services client configuration file.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the memory further comprising storing a framework module to create a common framework compatible with the web services configuration file and web services client configuration file.

13. The system of claim 10;

wherein the instructions further provide tools to provide access to the unified configuration file, wherein the tools are web services tools and web services client tools.

14. The system of claim 10;

wherein the mapping system comprising one or more of;

a mapping module and a unifying module.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the web services configuration file, the web services client configuration file, and the unified configuration file reside at a web application server residing at a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) engine.

16. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon data representing sets of instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

identifying a web services configuration file, the web services configuration file comprising a plurality of runtime properties related to a web services configuration;

identifying a web services client configuration file, the web services client configuration file comprising a plurality of runtime properties related to a web services client configuration;

analyzing the runtime properties associated with the web services configuration file and the runtime properties associated with the web services client configuration file to identify a set of common runtime properties and a set of uncommon runtime properties; and

generating a unified configuration file by unifying the web services configuration file and the web services client configuration file and removing the set of uncommon runtime properties from the unified configuration file.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein

the plurality of runtime properties related to the web services configuration comprises a web services format, and

the plurality of runtime properties related to a web services client configuration comprises a web services client format;

and

wherein the sets of instructions which;

when executed by the machine, further cause the machine to create a common format by unifying the web services format and web services client format.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the sets of instructions which, when executed by the machine, further cause the machine to generate a format module to create the common format.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein

the plurality of runtime properties related to the web services configuration comprises a web services framework, and

the plurality of runtime properties related to a web services client configuration comprises a web services client framework;

and

wherein the sets of instructions which, when executed by the machine, further cause the machine to create a common framework by unifying the web services framework and web services client framework.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the sets of instructions which, when executed by the machine, further cause the machine to generate a framework module to create the common framework.