Checks for software extensions

US9760364B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP SE · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Wieczorek · Meckesheim, DE
• Kai Dehmann · Wiesloch, DE
• Tamara Weckwerth · Ochsenhausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 15, 2015
• Grant date: Sep 12, 2017
• Expiry date: Apr 14, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F11/3698
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Software extensions for applications of an enterprise system may be developed in a test system. An adaptation transport module accesses, in the test system, a collection of adaptation objects where each adaptation object includes a semantic representation of a software extension for an application of an enterprise system and at least one associated software object. The transport module processes the collection by: generating staging data based on a type of each adaptation object; exporting the collection from the test system; performing checks on each adaptation object based on the staging data; and importing the collection to the enterprise system. The transport module installs each of the software extensions on the application, using the at least one associated software object for each, based on the results of the checks of each respective adaptation object. The staging data may be written to a file in a common directory shared by both systems.