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US 2008/0307392 A1Published application
System architecture for business process development and execution
AssigneeBEA Systems, Inc.
InventorsFelix G. Racca, Emilio L. Gabeiras
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Abstract
A system for designing a business process includes an introspection module that transforms implementation-specific components into generic components. The implementation-specific components are associated with a number of implementations. A component manager defines the generic components. A process designer selects at least one of the generic components from the component manager, and generates a business process that uses the at least one of the generic components.
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A system for designing a business process, said system comprising:
- an introspection module that generates a catalog of generic components by introspecting a set of exposed application programming interfaces (APIs) of a plurality of heterogeneous applications created in different programming languages and transforming a plurality of implementation-specific components of said heterogeneous applications into the generic components of said catalog wherein the catalog contains generic components which, when invoked, are bound to the implementation-specific components of said applications upon execution of the business process;
- a component manager coupled to the introspection module and operable to manage said catalog generated by the introspection module by defining and organizing the generic components in said catalog;
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- a process designer coupled to the component manager and operable to:
- select at least one of the generic components from said catalog managed by the component manager;
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- graphically construct a business process definition that includes a series of graphically represented activities linked by one or more transitions wherein at least one activity of said business process definition invokes the selected generic component from said catalog;
- a repository for storing the business process definition;
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- one or more process engines that execute said business process definition to instantiate a business process instance, wherein the business process instance interacts with the plurality of heterogeneous applications by invoking the generic components in said catalog and wherein the business process instance integrates the plurality of heterogeneous applications into a single process by invoking services from the plurality of heterogeneous applications during execution of the activities of said process.
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A computer implemented method for designing business processes, said method comprising:
- generating a catalog of generic components by introspecting a set of exposed application programming interfaces (APIs) of a plurality of heterogeneous applications implemented in multiple programming languages and translating implementation-specific components of the plurality of applications into generic components of said catalog wherein the catalog contains generic components which, when invoked, are bound to the implementation-specific components of said applications upon execution of the business process;
- selecting at least one generic component from the catalog;
- graphically constructing one or more business processes definitions, each business process definition including a series of graphically represented activities linked by one or more transitions wherein at least one activity of said business processes invokes the at least one generic component selected from said catalog;
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- executing the generated one or more business process definitions at one or more process engines in order to instantiate a business process instance, wherein the business process instance interacts with the plurality of applications by invoking the generic components of said catalog and wherein the business process instance integrates the plurality of heterogeneous applications into a single process by invoking services from the plurality of heterogeneous applications during execution of the activities of said process.
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A computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed by one or more processors cause a system to:
- generate a catalog of generic components by introspecting a set of exposed application programming interfaces (APIs) of a plurality of heterogeneous applications implemented in multiple programming languages and translating implementation-specific components of the plurality of applications into generic components of said catalog wherein the catalog contains generic components which, when invoked, are bound to the implementation-specific components of said applications upon execution of the business process
- select at least one generic component from the catalog;
- graphically construct one or more business processes definitions, each business process definition including a series of graphically represented activities linked by one or more transitions wherein at least one activity of said business processes invokes the at least one generic component selected from said catalog;
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- execute the generated one or more business process definitions at one or more process engines in order to instantiate a business process instance, wherein the business process instance interacts with the plurality of applications by invoking the generic components of said catalog and wherein the business process instance integrates the plurality of heterogeneous applications into a single process by invoking services from the plurality of heterogeneous applications during execution of the activities of said process.
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