User-interactive system and method for integrating applications

A method for integrating software applications in an enterprise system, comprising the steps of:

• (a) retrieving a name space for a source software application in the enterprise system, said source software application having a programming interface;
• (b) retrieving a name space for a destination software application in the enterprise system that has a second programming interface that is incompatible with said first programming interface;
• (c) displaying on a display device said name spaces;
• (d) receiving data unit mappings in response to the user graphically associating data units of the source software application with data units of the destination software application on the display device;
• (e) receiving user display inputs that specify trigger criteria the occurrence of which is to cause said specified data units to be transferred from said source application addresses to said destination application addresses;
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• (f) generating a configured method containing said user-specified data unit mappings;
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• (g) transferring said data units of said configured method from the source software application to the destination software application in accordance with said data unit mappings upon the occurrence of said user-specified trigger criteria.

A system for enabling a user to generate a user-defined programming interface for integrating software applications in an enterprise system, the software applications having incompatible programming interfaces, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• a controller to control said processor, said controller constructed and arranged to retrieve
• a name space for a source software application in the enterprise system, said source software application having a programming interface, and
• a name space for a destination software application in the enterprise system that has a second programming interface that is incompatible with said first programming interface,
• wherein said name spaces are displayed on a display device to enable a user to
• associate graphically data units of the source software application with data units of the destination software application and to
• specify conditions under which said specified data units are transferred from source application addresses to user-associated destination application addresses,
• wherein said associations of said data units are stored in a configuration repository.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for enabling a processor in a computer system to system to generate a user-defined programming interface for integrating software applications in an enterprise system, the software applications having incompatible programming interfaces,

• the computer program logic retrieving
• a name space for a source software application in the enterprise system, said
• source software application having a programming interface, and
• a name space for a destination software application in the enterprise system that has a second programming interface that is incompatible with said first programming interface,
• wherein said name spaces are displayed on a display device to enable a user to associate graphically data units of the source software application with data units of the destination software application and to specify conditions under which said specified data units are transferred from source application addresses to user-associated destination application addresses,
• wherein said associations of said data units are stored in a configuration repository.