Automated Enterprise Software Development
AssigneeVermeg Sarl
InventorBadreddine Ouali
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Abstract
The preferred embodiment provides a system and method for automatically generating enterprise software applications with minimal level of manual coding. The preferred embodiment provide a graphical design tool that models an application using Unified Model Language (UML), validate the UML model, and automatically generate deployable application. The preferred embodiment also provides a framework of libraries that the target application can be build from.
Claims13
A method for generating a software application using a computer system, comprising the steps of:
- (a) modeling business processes in a graphical design tool 410 implemented in said computer system;
- (b) creating, in said computer system, at least one UML model to formalize the business processes modeled in step (a) by using one or more state diagrams to represent the modeled business processes, and one or more class diagrams to represent data models and to represent predetermined business rules that are applied to the modeled business processes;
- (c) validating, in said computer system, the at least one UML model 420 by detecting syntax errors using a predetermined syntax, to validate either said one or more state diagrams or said one or more class diagrams, or a combination of said one or more state diagrams and said one or more class diagrams;
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- (d) transforming, in said computer system, said at least one UML model validated in step (c) into metadata that are used to generate functional and non-functional aspects of the software application.
A method for generating a software application using a computer system, comprising the steps of:
- (a) modeling business processes in a graphical design tool 410 implemented in said computer system;
- (b) creating, in said computer system, at least one UML model to formalize the business processes modeled in step (a) by using state diagrams to represent the modeled business processes, and class diagrams to represent data models and to represent predetermined rules that are applied to the modeled business processes;
- (c) validating, in said computer system, the at least one UML model 420 by detecting syntax errors using a predetermined syntax, to validate said state diagrams, said class diagrams, or a combination of said state diagrams and said class diagrams;
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- (d) generating said software application 430 such that said software application can be deployed to a server by transforming the validated UML models into source code, combining the transformed code with pre-existing libraries, and configuration files.
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