System and method for processing transactions in an environment containing a number of object oriented applications

A system for processing transactions between

• a number of object oriented applications and one or more instances of the same transaction processor type or multiple transaction processor types, comprising:
• (a) means for establishing a first communication link between the objected oriented applications and a transaction processor interoperability component;
• (b) means for externalizing a plurality of object oriented attributes into a data format compatible with said transaction processors;
• (c) means for internalizing a plurality of transaction processor data into a plurality of object oriented attributes;
• (d) means for determining which of the one or more transaction processors of the same or different type will process transactions for the utilizing implicit attributes of the transaction and a service database;
• (e) means for establishing a communication link between the transaction processor interoperability component and the transaction processor that will process transactions for the object oriented application;
• (f) means for transmitting a transaction from the object oriented application to the transaction processor interoperability component;
• (g) means for formatting the transaction by the transaction processor interoperability component for the transaction processor that will process transactions for the object oriented application;
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• (h) means for transmitting the formatted transaction to the transaction processor that will process transactions for the object oriented application.

A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for processing transactions between a number of object oriented applications and one or more instances of the same transaction processor type or multiple transaction processor types, comprising:

• (a) a code segment for establishing a first communication link between the objected oriented applications and a transaction processor interoperability component;
• (b) externalizing a plurality of object oriented attributes into a data format compatible with said transaction processors;
• (c) internalizing a plurality of transaction processor data into a plurality of object oriented attributes,
• (d) a code segment for determining which of the one or more transaction processors of the same or different type will process transactions for the utilizing implicit attributes of the transaction and a service database;
• (e) a code segment for establishing a communication link between the transaction processor interoperability component and the transaction processor that will process transactions for the object oriented application;
• (f) a code segment for transmitting a transaction from the object oriented application to the transaction processor interoperability component;
• (g) a code segment for formatting the transaction by the transaction processor interoperability component for the transaction processor that will process transactions for the object oriented application;
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• (h) a code segment for transmitting the formatted transaction to the transaction processor that will process transactions for the object oriented application.