US 2010/0251264 A1 · Systems and/or methods for end-to-end business process management, business event management, and/or business activity monitoring

Abstract

The example embodiments disclosed herein relate to application integration techniques built around the publish-and-subscribe model (or one of its variants). In certain example embodiments, application integration techniques for managing and/or monitoring a business process comprising a plurality of activities, events, and/or objects located in at least one resource external to the application integration system and a process engine thereof are provided. During design time, by introspecting the business object types involved in the activities, events, and/or objects of the at least one resource, potential state changes may be identified, and an integrative linkage may be established, with the integrative linkage being managed and maintained by a process monitoring agent (PMA). During runtime, the PMA may “listen” to the business object state changes in the at least one external resource and notify the local process engine accordingly.

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In an application integration system for managing and/or monitoring a business process comprising a plurality of activities, events, and/or objects located in one or more resources external to the application integration system and a process engine thereof, a method comprising:

during design time:
introspecting business object types involved in the activities, events, and/or objects of the at least one resource,
identifying potential state changes for the business object types, and
establishing business object type state change to receiver couplings via a process monitoring agent in communication with the at least one resource and the process engine;
and
during runtime:
causing the process monitoring agent to listen to the business object state changes in the at least one resource through an adapter;
when a business object state change is detected by the process monitoring agent, causing the process monitoring agent to notify the local process engine of the detected business object state change by producing a document processable by the process engine in accordance with an appropriate coupling.

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A method of configuring an application integration system for end-to-end business process management, business event management, and/or business activity monitoring, the method comprising:

establishing a connection between a process engine and at least one resource external to the process engine, the at least one resource including at least one activity, event, or object useful in modeling a business process being representable as an event at the process engine;
identifying at least one business object type of one said activity, event, or object;
selecting a business object type for further introspection;
introspecting the selected business object type to identify a state change thereof;
introspecting a selected state change of the selected business object type to identify business object state change properties;
creating a matching local document type suitable for processing by the process engine corresponding to the selected state change of the selected business object type;
establishing a coupling for the selected state change of the selected business object type via the process monitoring agent;
assigning a receiver for the coupling, the receiver being connected to the process monitoring agent such that the receiver is configured to trigger a notification according to the matching local document type in the application integration system;
generating a matching adapter notification;
enabling the matching adapter notification;
adding the adapter notification as an event in the process model;
and
deploying the process model to the process engine such that the process engine is configured to listen to state changes from the at least one remote resource in managing and/or monitoring the business process.

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An application integration system for end-to-end business process management, business event management, and/or business activity monitoring, the system comprising:

an adapter configured to establish a connection between a process engine and at least one resource external to the process engine, the at least one resource including at least one activity, event, or object useful in modeling a business process representable as an event at the process engine;
a process monitoring agent configured to:
identify at least one business object type of one said activity, event, or object,
select a business object type for further introspection,
introspect the selected business object type to identify a state change thereof,
introspect a selected state change of the selected business object type to identify business object state change properties,
create a matching local document type suitable for processing by the process engine corresponding to the selected state change of the selected business object type,
establish a coupling for the selected state change of the selected business object type via the process monitoring agent,
assign a receiver for the coupling, the receiver being associated with the adapter and being connected to the process monitoring agent such that the receiver is configured to trigger a notification according to the matching local document type in the application integration system;
generate a matching adapter notification;
enable the matching adapter notification;
add the adapter notification as an event in the business process;
and
deploy the process model to the process engine such that the process engine is configured to listen to state changes from the at least one remote resource in managing and/or monitoring the business process.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Systems and/or methods for end-to-end business process management, business event management, and/or business activity monitoring

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