High performance map editor for business analysts

• US 9,679,267 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2015
• Issued: 06/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Huynh, Kien K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheema, Azam
• Application Number:
  US14/688,675
• Publication Number:
  US 20150220858A1
• Time in Patent Office: 789 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/235 Update request formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/275 Synchronous replication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/80 of semi-structured data, e.g. markup language structured data such as SGML, XML or HTML content-based retrieval of web data G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/81 Indexing, e.g. XML tags; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/83 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/84 Mapping; Conversion
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/50 Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

At least one model synchronization map table is built that facilitates navigation between elements of business objects of a business object model and corresponding elements of an extensible markup language (XML) schema definition-based (XSD-based) model. The XSD-based model includes at least one XML schema and is generated from the business object model. The business object model and the XSD-based model are displayed in a dual-view editor. The dual-view editor enables a user to toggle between and independently edit the business object model and the XSD-based model. In response to independent edits made to one of the XSD-based model and the business object model within the dual-view editor, the elements of the business object model are automatically synchronized with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model using the at least one model synchronization map table.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

building at least one model synchronization map table that facilitates navigation between elements of business objects of a business object model and corresponding elements of an extensible markup language (XML) schema definition-based (XSD-based) model comprising at least one XML schema and generated from the business object model, comprising recursively building the at least one model synchronization map table with stored relationships between each identified element of the at least one XML schema of the XSD-based model and a respective corresponding element of each business object of the business object model, where the stored relationships within the model synchronization map table facilitate toggling and automatic synchronization between the business object model and the XSD-based model;

displaying the business object model and the XSD-based model in a dual-view editor, the dual-view editor enabling a user to toggle between and independently edit the business object model and the XSD-based model; and

automatically synchronizing, using the at least one model synchronization map table, the elements of the business objects of the business object model with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model in response to independent edits made to one of the XSD-based model and the business object model within the dual-view editor.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, where displaying the business object model and the XSD-based model in the dual-view editor comprises delegating the displaying of the business object model and the XSD-based model in the dual-view editor to an XML mapping infrastructure.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, where automatically synchronizing, using the at least one model synchronization map table, the elements of the business objects of the business object model with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model in response to the independent edits made to the one of the XSD-based model and the business object model within the dual-view editor comprises:

incrementally synchronizing the elements of the business objects of the business object model with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model in response to each independent edit made to the one of the XSD-based model and the business object model within the dual-view editor.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising registering the automated synchronization of the elements of the business objects of the business object model with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model as an adapter of the business object model.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving, responsive to an independent edit made to the business object model within the dual-view editor, a notification from the adapter of the business object model;

invoking an incremental transformation of the corresponding XML schema; and

refreshing the displayed XSD-based model to reflect the incremental transformation of the corresponding XML schema.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further comprising updating a global registry with the incremental transformation of the corresponding XML schema.

7. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processor programmed to;

build, within the memory, at least one model synchronization map table that facilitates navigation between elements of business objects of a business object model and corresponding elements of an extensible markup language (XML) schema definition-based (XSD-based) model comprising at least one XML schema and generated from the business object model, comprising the processor being programmed to recursively build the at least one model synchronization map table with stored relationships between each identified element of the at least one XML schema of the XSD-based model and a respective corresponding element of each business object of the business object model, where the stored relationships within the model synchronization map table facilitate toggling and automatic synchronization between the business object model and the XSD-based model;

display the business object model and the XSD-based model in a dual-view editor, the dual-view editor enabling a user to toggle between and independently edit the business object model and the XSD-based model; and

automatically synchronize, using the at least one model synchronization map table, the elements of the business objects of the business object model with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model in response to independent edits made to one of the XSD-based model and the business object model within the dual-view editor.

8. The system of claim 7, where, in being programmed to display the business object model and the XSD-based model in the dual-view editor, the processor is programmed to delegate the displaying of the business object model and the XSD-based model in the dual-view editor to an XML mapping infrastructure.

9. The system of claim 7, where, in being programmed to automatically synchronize, using the at least one model synchronization map table, the elements of the business objects of the business object model with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model in response to the independent edits made to the one of the XSD-based model and the business object model within the dual-view editor, the processor is programmed to:

incrementally synchronize the elements of the business objects of the business object model with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model in response to each independent edit made to the one of the XSD-based model and the business object model within the dual-view editor.

10. The system of claim 7, where the processor is further programmed to register the automated synchronization of the elements of the business objects of the business object model with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model as an adapter of the business object model.

11. The system of claim 10, where the processor is further programmed to:

receive, responsive to an independent edit made to the business object model within the dual-view editor, a notification from the adapter of the business object model;

invoke an incremental transformation of the corresponding XML schema;

refresh the displayed XSD-based model to reflect the incremental transformation of the corresponding XML schema; and

update a global registry with the incremental transformation of the corresponding XML schema.

12. A computer program product comprising a computer-usable storage medium having computer-usable program code embodied therein, where the computer-usable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se and the computer-usable program code when executed on a computer causes the computer to:

build at least one model synchronization map table that facilitates navigation between elements of business objects of a business object model and corresponding elements of an extensible markup language (XML) schema definition-based (XSD-based) model comprising at least one XML schema and generated from the business object model, where the computer-usable program code when executed on the computer causes the computer to recursively build the at least one model synchronization map table with stored relationships between each identified element of the at least one XML schema of the XSD-based model and a respective corresponding element of each business object of the business object model, where the stored relationships within the model synchronization map table facilitate toggling and automatic synchronization between the business object model and the XSD-based model;

display the business object model and the XSD-based model in a dual-view editor, the dual-view editor enabling a user to toggle between and independently edit the business object model and the XSD-based model; and

automatically synchronize, using the at least one model synchronization map table, the elements of the business objects of the business object model with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model in response to independent edits made to one of the XSD-based model and the business object model within the dual-view editor.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, where, in causing the computer to display the business object model and the XSD-based model in the dual-view editor, the computer-usable program code when executed on the computer causes the computer to delegate the displaying of the business object model and the XSD-based model in the dual-view editor to an XML mapping infrastructure.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, where, in causing the computer to automatically synchronize, using the at least one model synchronization map table, the elements of the business objects of the business object model with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model in response to the independent edits made to the one of the XSD-based model and the business object model within the dual-view editor, the computer-usable program code when executed on the computer causes the computer to:

incrementally synchronize the elements of the business objects of the business object model with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model in response to each independent edit made to the one of the XSD-based model and the business object model within the dual-view editor.

15. The computer program product of claim 12, where the computer-usable program code when executed on the computer further causes the computer to register the automated synchronization of the elements of the business objects of the business object model with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model as an adapter of the business object model.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, where the computer-usable program code when executed on the computer further causes the computer to:

receive, responsive to an independent edit made to the business object model within the dual-view editor, a notification from the adapter of the business object model;

invoke an incremental transformation of the corresponding XML schema; and

refresh the displayed XSD-based model to reflect the incremental transformation of the corresponding XML schema.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, where the computer-usable program code when executed on the computer further causes the computer to update a global registry with the incremental transformation of the corresponding XML schema.