Simulation business object for service oriented architecture

An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory machine readable medium having content stored thereon to provide instructions to cause a machine to perform operations including:

• sending a stateless message to instantiate a stateful simulation object for a selected backend application of a service-oriented architecture system;
• receiving a confirmation of instantiation of the stateful simulation object, the confirmation including a simulation object identifier that identifies the stateful simulation object;
• sending a stateless activity request message that includes the simulation object identifier to cause an activity to be executed in the backend application;
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• storing a result of the execution of the activity in the stateful simulation object.

An enterprise system comprising:

• a hardware platform on which to execute a stateful simulation process for a backend data system of a service-oriented architecture system;
• a simulation object function module having
• a create object module to receive a stateless message requesting a stateful simulation, and instantiate a stateful simulation object and initiate the stateful simulation process on the hardware platform responsive to receiving the stateless message, wherein instantiating the stateful simulation object includes generating a simulation object identifier;
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• a perform activity module to receive a stateless activity request message referencing the simulation object identifier, execute a simulation activity responsive to receiving the stateless activity request message, and store a result of the simulation activity in the stateful simulation object;
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• a memory device in which the stateful simulation object is instantiated.