US 2012/0060141 A1Published application

Integrated environment for software design and implementation

OwnerHilmar Demant, Abdul Aziz +7inventors

InventorsHILMAR DEMANT, Abdul Aziz, Debobrata Bose, Indranil Dutt, Mahesh Gopalan, Niels Hebling, Jayakanth R, Vinod S. Nair, Aaby Sivakumar

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Abstract

Systems and methods for providing an integrated computer environment for software design and implementation are described. A number of UI components are connected in several sequences in the integrated computer environment. Each sequence describes a screenflow corresponding to a particular task in a software application. The screenflows are combined in a normalized interaction diagram representing the sequences of screens for every task that could be performed in the software application. The interaction diagram aggregates the similar UI components in different screenflows to avoid redundant duplicates. The UI components are bound to at least one business object (BO) as defined in a backend computer system. The software application is implemented and ready to be executed after the binding.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to tangibly store instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

group a plurality of base floorplans, wherein each floorplan of the plurality of floorplans includes at least one general user interface (UI) component;
generate at least one primary screenflow corresponding to a first use case, wherein the at least one primary screenflow includes a first set of floorplans of the plurality of floorplans configured to represent at least one primary sequence of UI controls for executing at least one task of first use case;
generate at least one secondary screenflow corresponding to a second use case, wherein the at least one secondary screenflow includes a second set of floorplans of the plurality of floorplans configured to represent at least one secondary sequence of UI components for executing at least one task of the second use case;
combine the at least one primary screenflow with the at least one secondary screenflow into a normalized interaction diagram representing the at least one primary sequence of UI controls and the at least one secondary sequence of UI components;
and
bind at least one floorplan from the plurality of floorplans to a data structure corresponding to at least one business object (BO) in a backend system, wherein the at least one floorplan is included in the normalized interaction diagram.

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A computer implemented method for a business application development and implementation within an integrated environment, the method comprising:

connecting a first floorplan to a second floorplan with a first connection to form a first screenflow corresponding to a first business scenario;
connecting the first floorplan to a second floorplan with a second connection to form a second screenflow corresponding to a second business scenario;
combining the first screenflow with the second screenflow into an interaction diagram corresponding to the first business scenario and to the second business scenario, wherein the first floorplan is aggregated;
and
assigning the floorplans and the connections between floorplans in the interaction diagram to at least one business object (BO) based on BO metadata stored in a backend computer system;
and
storing user interface (UI) metadata in the backend computer system to allow a third party execution of the business scenarios over the at least one BO, wherein the UI metadata includes a description of the floorplans and the connections in the interaction diagram.

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A computer system for application development and implementation within an integrated environment, the system comprising:

a memory to store computer instructions, wherein the memory is connected to a backend computer system via network;
and
a processor coupled to the memory to execute the computer instructions to
maintain at least one project container including items of one or more integrated categories selected from a group consisting of use cases, documents, user profiles, roles, floorplans and cross project items,
display at least one floorplan from a plurality of floorplans of an interaction diagram for the at least one project,
generate a list of at least one screenflow aggregated into the interaction diagram, wherein the at least one screenflow includes the at least one floorplan, and
maintain a correspondence between the at least one floorplan and at least one business object (BO) defined in the backend computer system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.