Consistent Interface for Document Output Request
AssigneeSap SE
InventorsZifeng Gu, Jin Huang, Christoph Birkenhauer, Werner Gnan
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Abstract
A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a document output request business object.
Claims7
A computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for a document output request, including a set of output requests related to a business document, the medium comprising:
- program code for receiving via a message-based interface exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry and from a heterogeneous application executing in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services, a first message for requesting output of a business document, including a set of output requests related to a referenced business object, the output requests using one or more output channels for sending out documents, the first message including a message package hierarchically organized as:
- a document output request message entity;
- a message header package including a message header entity;
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- a document output request package including a document output request entity, wherein the document output request entity includes an access control list entity, and wherein the document output request entity includes a universally unique identifier (UUID), a reference object node identifier (ID), a reference object type code, and a reference object node type code;
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- program code for sending a second message to the heterogeneous application responsive to the first message.
A distributed system operating in a landscape of computer systems providing message-based services defined in a service registry, the system comprising:
- a graphical user interface comprising computer readable instructions, embedded on tangible media, for requesting output of a business document, including a set of output requests related to a referenced business object, the output requests using one or more output channels for sending out documents, the instructions using a request;
- a first memory storing a user interface controller for processing the request and involving a message including a message package hierarchically organized as:
- a document output request message entity;
- a message header package including a message header entity;
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- a document output request package including a document output request entity, wherein the document output request entity includes an access control list entity, and wherein the document output request entity includes a universally unique identifier (UUID), a reference object node identifier (ID), a reference object type code, and a reference object node type code;
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- a second memory, remote from the graphical user interface, storing a plurality of service interfaces, wherein one of the service interfaces is operable to process the message via the service interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.