US Patent:
20100161629, Jun 24, 2010
Inventors:
Muthukumar S. Palanisamy - Sunnyvale CA, US
David E. DiFranco - St. Louis MO, US
Sharon Y. Fay - Bay Village OH, US
David S. Keyes - Clinton OH, US
Robert W. Scanlon - Des Peres MO, US
Adam J. Wallace - Mentor OH, US
Assignee:
Oracle International Corporation - Redwood Shores CA
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
US Classification:
707756, 707769, 707E17014, 707E17044, 707705, 707736
Abstract:
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) engines and Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) often connect to adapters to integrate backend packaged applications with a process flow by invoking web services using Java Connector Architecture (JCA) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) bindings. The Web Service Description Language (WSDL) files for the web services that interact with the adapters can be introspected to harvest adapter integration and transformation information into a service metadata repository. This permits dependency and impact analysis to extend from services to adapters and transformations.