Support of a platform-independent model including descriptions of modeling language entities

US7840936B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Frank Seeger · Wiesloch, DE
• Ulf Fildebrandt · Schwetzingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 29, 2005
• Grant date: Nov 23, 2010
• Expiry date: Aug 26, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F8/10
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for supporting a model including descriptions of modeling language entities in a visual modeling environment. A method includes providing a visual modeling tool and modeling language entities being entities of a language of expressing applications designed in a visual modeling language environment, receiving input defining an application in the visual modeling language environment, and generating a platform-independent model of the application based on the input and the modeling language entities. In that method, the modeling language entities have a corresponding syntactic description that can be in accordance with the language, the input defines the application as a selection of the modeling language entities and a configuration of the selection, and the platform-independent model includes the selection, the configuration, and a syntactic description of the modeling language entities in the selection.