Service-oriented architecture for accessing reports in legacy systems

A data processing system comprising:

• a service-oriented architecture including at least one query interface and at least one data interface;
• a repository comprising metadata used by the service-oriented architecture and a client and defining a model of interaction between the service-oriented architecture and the client, the model of interaction including the at least one query interface and the at least one data interface;
• each query interface operable to receive from the client one or more search conditions defining data requested in a search and to submit a request to a reporting server for report results relating to data in a back-end database, the request defining search criteria corresponding to the one or more search conditions for identifying data in the back-end database, the search criteria submitted in a format used by the reporting server;
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• each data interface operable receive report results from the reporting server in response to the request, the report results including data identified in the back-end database as matching the search conditions included in the request.

A data processing system comprising:

• means for receiving one or more search conditions defining data requested in a search;
• means for submitting a request to a reporting server for report results relating to data in a back-end database, the request defining search criteria corresponding to the one or more search conditions for identifying data in the back-end database, the search criteria submitted in a format used by the reporting server;
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• means for receiving report results from the reporting server in response to the request, the report results including data identified in the back-end database as matching the search conditions included in the request;
• the reporting server interacts with the back-end database and is implemented within an integrated business process architecture comprising a plurality of software modules and executable on a virtual machine, the integrated business process architecture operating to update data across the plurality of software modules in real time and the back-end database comprising at least one relational database for storing data in the integrated business process architecture.