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Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce
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Inventors: Cohen, Mitchell Adam; Harris, Tracy Mark; Sturzenbecker, Martin Clarence; Walters, James Allen;
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Primary Examiner: Black; Thomas
Assistant Examiner: Chen; Ge Yu
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Dugan & Dugan
A generic interface between an electronic commerce frontend and a business management backend is provided via an object oriented computer program product. In operation, the program creates one or more specific business objects from a plurality of specific business object classes. The program also provides a framework within which the business objects travel. A first framework instance is coupled to the frontend, and a second framework instance is coupled to the backend. In response to a request from the frontend or backend, the framework instance coupled to the requesting end creates a specific business object to perform the requested operation. Specific Business Objects are derived from a common class containing the methods required by the framework, a specific business object class containing the methods for performing a specific business function (e.g., order, provide production information, etc.), a frontend adapter class containing the methods for mapping data from the frontend to the business object, and a backend adapter class containing the methods for mapping data from the business object to a backend. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention provides an object-oriented computer program product for providing a generic interface between an electronic commerce frontend and a business management backend.
The inventive program is carried by a medium readable by a computer (e.
g.
, a carrier wave signal, a floppy disc, a hard drive, a random access memory).
The computer readable medium contains object-oriented program code which provides a plurality of object classes from which a specific business object (e.
g.
, an order business object, product information business object, etc.
) can be created.
The computer readable medium also contains object-oriented program code for mapping data between the frontend and the backend applications, and for transferring data by transferring a specific business object, which is loaded with the data, between the frontend and the backend applications.
Additionally, the computer readable medium contains object-oriented program code for providing a framework within which the specific business objects travel.
The framework comprises an environment means for providing data relevant to performing business data manipulations within the framework (e.
g.
, database driver locations, business object class names, and various communications details).
A listener object is operatively coupled to the environment means, and to the frontend or the backend application, for receiving an operation ID from the frontend or the backend application.
The listener object accesses the environment means to determine a business object class identified by the operation ID, and creates a business object of the identified business object class.
The inventive framework further comprises at least one business framework object operatively coupled to both the listener object and the environment means for receiving business objects created by the listener object and for executing a method of each received business object; and a communications object operatively coupled to the at least one business framework object and to the environment means, for sending and receiving business objects to and from both the at least one business framework object and a remote framework
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