Installation-free generic service-oriented architecture (SOA) asset importer, and/or associated systems and/or methods

US8311995B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• SOFTWARE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Seyed Mohammad Ali Maraschi-Schouschtari · Darmstadt, DE
• Harald Schöning · Dieburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 16, 2011
• Grant date: Nov 13, 2012
• Expiry date: Sep 16, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/51
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Certain example embodiments relate to importing assets into a service-oriented architecture (SOA) registry. An SOA system includes a repository for storing a plurality of files relating to real assets, and a registry containing metadata and/or other information about these real assets, including at least one registry asset per real asset. Each registry asset has a registry asset type. A generic import module is configured to (a) receive as input one or more import specifications, with each import specification defining how information from an external specification file of an asset type is to be extracted to create one or more registry assets of one or more corresponding target registry asset types, (b) generate one or more registry assets of one or more target registry asset types based on a corresponding import specification, and (c) register the generated one or more registry assets of the one or more target registry asset types.