Automatically generated objects within extensible object frameworks and links to enterprise resources

• US 20020023261A1
• Filed: 07/27/2001
• Published: 02/21/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Leidos, Inc. (Leidos Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Science Applications International Corporation
• Inventors: Steele, Jason, Messina, Marvin, Goodwin, Richard Glenn, Farrar, Michael Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 7,152,228 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/146
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/35 model driven
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/40 Transformation of program code
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A method for generating source code objects has steps of generating a translation file containing translation logic; inputting the translation file into a code generator; and generating translation source code as a function of the translation file. A system for accessing a database through a translation layer comprising a first database; a translation layer, defined by translation source code; and an application for accessing the first database through the translation layer.

Claims

1. A method for generating source code comprising:

generating a translation file containing translation logic;

inputting the translation file into a code generator; and

generating translation source code as a function of the translation file.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating a plurality of translation files; and

inputting the plurality of translation files into the code generator.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating a logical model using a modeling tool;

translating the logical model into a unified model; and

inputting the unified model into the code generator.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising generating at least one source code object as a function of the unified model.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein said generating of at least one source code object comprises generating at least one interface definition language element.

6. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

storing the unified model in a schema repository; and

storing the translation file in the schema repository.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

storing the translation file in the schema repository.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the translation file contains translation logic to translate data from a database into a standard format.

9. A method of generating source code objects comprising:

providing a code generator with a unified model represented in a unified modeling language;

providing the code generator with a system definition;

providing the code generator with a translation file in the unified modeling language;

generating source code objects as a function of the unified model and the system definition; and

generating source code objects as a function of the unified model and the translation file.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the system definition comprises a plurality of templates, each defining at least one service within a framework.

11. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

generating a logical model using a modeling tool; and

translating the logical model into the unified model.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the generating of source code objects as a function of the unified model and the translation file comprises generating source code to translate an object element from the unified model into a standard format.

14. The system of claim 13 further comprising:

a second database;

wherein the application accesses the second database through the translation layer.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the data coming from the first database and the second database is received by the application in a standard format.

16. The system of claim 15 further comprising:

a first unified model representing the first database; and

a second unified model representing the second database.

17. The system of claim 13 further comprising a first unified model representing the first database.

18. The system of claim 17 further comprising:

a logical model for modeling the first database; and

a system definition.

19. The system of claim 13 wherein the translation layer translates data coming from the first database into a standard format.

20. The system of claim 19 further comprising:

a second database;

wherein the translation layer translates data coming from the second database into the standard format.

13. A system for accessing a database through a translation layer comprising:

a first database;

a translation layer, defined by translation source code; and

an application for accessing the first database through the translation layer.

21. A method for generating source code objects comprising:

generating a logical model using a modeling tool;

translating the logical model into a corresponding unified model;

generating a system definition comprising a template, the template defining at least one service within a framework; and

generating at least one source code object as a function of the unified model, and the template.

22. The method of claim 21 wherein the translating of the logical model comprises generating at least one Unified Modeling Language (UML) element.

23. The method of claim 21 wherein the generating of the system definition comprises generating in the template at least one JavaScript element.

24. The method of claim 21 wherein said generating of at least one source code object comprises generating at least one interface definition language element.

25. The method of claim 21 further comprising:

defining an adaptor, the adaptor defining a translation from the modeling tool.

26. The method of claim 21 further comprising:

storing the unified model in a schema repository;

wherein said generating of the source code objects comprises retrieving the unified model.

27. The method of claim 21 further comprising:

retrieving data from a database by employing the source code objects and the unified model to define a relationship between an object oriented database query and the data.

28. The method of claim 21 further comprising:

generating a translation file, the translation file containing translation logic; and

generating at least one source code object as a function of the translation file.

29. The method of claim 28 further comprising:

storing the translation file in a schema repository.