Executing a business process by a standard business process engine

US8571914B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Gerd Breiter · Wildberg, DE
• Matthias Kloppmann · Eppelheim, DE
• Thomas Spatzier · Holzgerlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 20, 2012
• Grant date: Oct 29, 2013
• Expiry date: Jul 20, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F8/20
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Executing a business process can include providing a context data object including a payload data structure for storing a payload data and automatically splitting an annotated context data object into one or more utility data objects. Responsive to creating a second utility data object, a pre-processing task can be injected into the business process, the pre-processing task using a copy of a first mapping to read data from the predefined data structure instance and to store the read data as payload data in the payload data structure of the first utility data object. Responsive to creating a third utility object, a post-processing task can be injected into the business process. The post-processing task can use a copy of the second mapping to write the payload data of the first utility data object to elements of a predefined data structure instance.