System and process having a universal adapter framework and providing a global user interface and global messaging bus

A computer implemented process for providing a comprehensive user interface enabling access to a plurality of application engines, comprising:

• establishing a plurality of application engines each having an engine interface, the plurality of application engines comprising a plurality of types of engines;
• establishing a user interface process to provide an interface based upon user interface components;
• communicating information between the applications engines and a plurality of data sources;
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• communicating information between the engine interface of an application engine and the user interface process by dynamically loading an adapter appropriate for the corresponding type of engines such that data from the plurality of data sources is integrated into a common data model oriented for the user interface process;
• the adapter being one of a plurality of dynamically loadable adapters each appropriate for accessing a particular type of engine and for mapping the engine interfaces of one or more application engines of that type into a comprehensive user interface enabling access to the plurality of application engines.

A computer implemented system providing a global messaging bus, comprising:

• native messaging supported using a native message protocol across a network messaging layer;
• a plurality of message bus manager processes each associated with a software application and comprising:
• a dynamically loadable message bus adapter appropriate for the native message protocol and communicating across the network messaging layer;
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• a message bus application program interface appropriate for and communicating with the associated software application;
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• each message bus manager process communicating messages between the associated software application and the network messaging layer to enable global messaging across the network messaging layer between a plurality of software applications having associated message bus manager processes.

A computer implemented process providing a global messaging bus, comprising:

• establishing a network messaging layer that supports native messaging using a native message protocol;
• establishing a plurality of message bus manager processes each associated with a software application;
• interfacing, at each message bus manager process, between the network messaging layer and the associated software application by dynamically loading a message bus adapters appropriate for the native message protocol and using a message bus application program interface appropriate for the software application;
• the plurality of message bus manager processes enabling global messaging between the software applications across the network messaging layer by communicating messages between the associated software applications and the network messaging layer.