US 2008/0288792 A1 · METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ADAPTIVE INTEGRATION ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT FOR BUSINESS APPLICATION INTEGRATION

Abstract

An adaptive integration activity management framework for on demand business process integration provides a mechanism to enable easy integration of legacy and new applications. The framework minimizes the effort need to integrate a new application into an existing business process environment such that the new activity is a “plug-in” into an action manager by implementing a standard adaptation layer. Activity integration is implemented in the principle of “on-demand” because it is invoked as required, so the communication and collaboration between partners become much more flexible.

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A computer implemented method for executing an integration activity chain for on demand business process integration, the computer performing the steps of:

receiving the integration activity's properties in a data string for execution from an event bus;
parsing events from the received data string, said data string optionally including an annotation specifying an action for integration;
controlling integration activity execution through consulting an on demand business collaboration ontology and an access control utility;
coordinating with an exception handler when there is a business exception which comes from integrated applications;
and
performing integration activity execution by invoking an adaptation layer implementation,
wherein if said action is a new integration activity said adaptation layer implementation is responsive to said action specified by said annotation.

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Method and apparatus of adaptive integration activity management for business application integration

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