Method and apparatus for configuring and modeling server information in an enterprise tooling environment

A data processing system for managing information in an enterprise tooling environment, the data processing system comprising:

• a bus;
• a storage device, wherein the storage device contains computer usable code;
• a communications unit connected to the bus;
• a processing unit connected to the bus, wherein the processing unit executes the computer usable code to determine whether at least one connection object is present in a connections object if the connections object is detected at deployment time, wherein each of the at least one connection object captures development time connection information specific to a backend server and wherein the connections object includes a plurality of connection objects and deploy spec objects;
• and load a backend resource manager specific to an application server if the at least one connection object is present, wherein the backend resource manager manages run time connections between the application server and the backend server;
• the processing unit executing the computer usable code to transform the development time connection information to the run time connection information specific to the backend server if the at least one deploy spec object is present, and
• the processing unit executing the computer usable code to determine a format of the run time connection information specific to the backend server and translate the development time connection information in the at least one connection object to the format of the run time connection information specific to the backend server.

A computer program product comprising:

• a computer usable medium having computer usable program code for managing information in an enterprise tooling environment, the computer program product including:
• computer usable program code for determining whether at least one connection object is present in a connections object if the connections object is detected at deployment time, wherein each of the at least one connection object captures development time connection information specific to a backend server and wherein the connections object includes a plurality of connection objects and deploy spec objects;
• computer usable program code for loading a backend resource manager specific to an application server, wherein the backend resource manager manages run time connections between the application server and the backend server if the at least one connection object is present;
• computer usable program code for determining if the at least one deploy spec object is present in the connections object, wherein the at least one deploy spec object captures the run time connection information specific to the backend server;
• computer usable program code for loading a connection interpreter specific to the backend server if the at least one deploy spec object is present, wherein the connection interpreter transforms the development time connection information to the run time connection information specific to the backend server;
• computer usable program for determining if at least one connection factory spec object is present in the at least one deploy spec object, wherein the at least one connection factory spec object captures references to the at least one connection object;
• computer usable program for if at least connection factory spec object is present, filling the at least one deploy spec object and the at least one connection factory spec object with the run time connection information specific to the backend server;
• and
• computer usable program for writing the run time connection information to at least one configuration file of the application server.