Method and apparatus for generating it level executable solution artifacts from the operational specification of a business
US7222302B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 5, 2003 |
| Grant date | May 22, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 13, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q10/10
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method that implements top-down and bottom-up model-driven transformations between platform-independent (business view) modeling approaches and platform-specific (IT architectural) models. On the business level, business view models may be expressed in, but not limited to ADF or UML2, whereas on the IT architecture side, service-oriented architectures with Web service interfaces and processes are specified in business process protocol languages including, but not limited to, BPEL4WS, or workflow definitions. An architecture and a transformation method based on typed information flows automatically transforms platform-independent business models into executable information technology (IT) architecture specifications constrained by a specific IT platform, and vice versa. The models generated span the entire life cycle of a software system and ease the software production, deployment and maintenance tasks. That is, the different models generated for the same system are “linked” in a way that relevant changes in one model may be propagated to the other models to keep the model set consistent.
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