COMPUTER-AIDED DEVELOPMENT OF NATIVE MOBILE APPLICATION CODE

• US 20150089469A1
• Filed: 08/19/2014
• Published: 03/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: SHAKESPEARE, Darryl Martin, NOWAKOWSKI, David Wayne, LAURENT, Nicole Jodie
• Granted Patent: US 10,127,023 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/106
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44521 Dynamic linking or loading; Link editing at or after load time, e.g. Java class loading

Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product for computer-aided software application development. A synthesizer commences upon receiving a mobile device identifier and additional information such as an application identifier, an object model, and/or a form identifier, then analyzing the additional information to determine what form(s) to implement on the mobile device. Further synthesis processing includes analyzing the forms to determine a set of functions to implement on the identified mobile device. Using the determined set of functions, native application code modules are retrieved from a repository. The retrieved native application code modules correspond to the set of functions. The code modules are integrated together to generate a native mobile application, which can be deployed to a mobile device. Messages from the mobile device are intercepted so as to emulate form processing of a back-end application. Any back-end applications that use the form can be accessed by the native mobile application.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a mobile device identifier and information comprising at least one of, an application identifier, an object model and a form identifier;

analyzing the information to determine at least one form to implement on a mobile device;

analyzing the form to determine a set of functions to implement on the mobile device;

retrieving, from a repository of native application code modules, a plurality of selected native application code modules corresponding to at least a portion of the set of functions; and

assembling a mobile application comprising at least a portion of the form and at least some of the selected native application code modules.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the object model comprises at least one of, a field, a function, and a message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected native application code module serves to initiate at least one of, a create operation, a replace operation, an update operation, and a delete operation.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising deploying the mobile application onto a mobile device corresponding to the mobile device identifier.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a Java class from a JSON message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the selected native application code modules implements forming a request message.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the request message comprises a simple object access protocol (SOAP) request.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the request message comprises a representational state transfer abstraction (REST) request.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the request message comprises a password.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the request message comprises an image capture file.

11. A computer program product, embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor causes the processor to execute a process, the process comprising:

receiving a mobile device identifier and information comprising at least one of, an application identifier, an object model and a form identifier;

analyzing the information to determine at least one form to implement on a mobile device;

analyzing the form to determine a set of functions to implement on the mobile device;

retrieving, from a repository of native application code modules, a plurality of selected native application code modules corresponding to at least a portion of the set of functions; and

assembling a mobile application comprising at least a portion of the form and at least some of the selected native application code modules.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the object model comprises at least one of, a field, a function, and a message.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the selected native application code module serves to initiate at least one of, a create operation, a replace operation, an update operation, and a delete operation.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising instructions for deploying the mobile application onto a mobile device corresponding to the mobile device identifier.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising instructions for generating a Java class from a JSON message.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein at least one of the selected native application code modules implements forming a request message.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the request message comprises a simple object access protocol (SOAP) request.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the request message comprises a representational state transfer abstraction (REST) request.

19. A system comprising:

a synthesizer module to receive a mobile device identifier and information comprising at least one of, an application identifier, an object model and a form identifier;

a parser module to analyze the information to determine at least one form to implement on a mobile device, and to analyzing the form to determine a set of functions to implement on the mobile device;

a query generator to retrieve, from a repository of native application code modules, a plurality of selected native application code modules corresponding to at least a portion of the set of functions; and

a code integration module to assemble a mobile application comprising at least a portion of the form and at least some of the selected native application code modules.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the object model comprises at least one of, a field, a function, and a message.