COMPOSING INTEGRATED SYSTEMS USING GUI-BASED APPLICATIONS AND WEB SERVICES

摘要

A composer of integrated systems solves the technical problem of enabling graphical user interface applications (GAPs) to interoperate (e.g., exchange information) with each other and web services over the Internet, effectively and non-invasivel y. The system provides a user friendly visualization mechanism that interacts with an accessibility layer to enable organizations to economically and easily defin e web service driven information exchange between GAPs, by performing point-and- click, drag-and-drop operations on GAPs. The system allows users to rapidly create integrated systems composing GAPs enabled to interoperate with other GAPs an d web services, so that organizations extend the life-cycle use of their legac y GAPs in business operations.