Metadata driven flexible user interface for business applications

摘要

Business application adaptation to changes in business processes is enabled through real time modification of business application schema and metadata at runtime employing business rules to accommodate changing business processes without a need to change the underlying data and models. A business application user interface reacts to runtime changes and enforces validation and business rules as if the changes are made to the underlying structure.

主权项

1. A method executed on a computing device for providing a metadata driven, dynamically updateable user interface in a business application, the method comprising:
detecting a change in a business process associated with the business application, wherein the process includes one or more of: manufacturing, inventory, planning, purchasing operations, and enabling an interaction between a supplier and a consumer of goods and services; discovering metadata and schema associated with the business process dynamically, wherein the metadata and schema are stored and located on at least one of: a local hard disk, a program suite, an organization's intranet, a user's web service, a user's cloud persona, and on the Internet through a search engine; at least one of creating and modifying runtime metadata instances based on the detected change at a detection layer; notifying a user interface layer about the detected change and the created and modified metadata at a binding layer; and enabling the user interface to be automatically updated at runtime based on the at least one of created and modified metadata instances at the user interface layer.