METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING AN ADAPTIVE APPLICATION

摘要

An Adaptive Software Application (20) consists of several types of modules, called Adaptive Units, which are highly parameterized such that they can adapt to varying business requirements by virtue of externally provided parameters. An Adaptive Application is assembled through repeated use of various combinations of different types of Adaptive Units. Large and complex business systems can be rapidly implemented through this approach. An Adaptive Unit includes an interface component that can present information to and accept information from the outside world (such as a web page or a system interface), a processing logic component that can manipulate and evaluate information based on received parameters received (such as comparisons and decisions as in the case of data dependency decisions), and a data persistence logic component that retrieves, adds, updates, and deletes data targeting one or more Occurrence Databases (22). All three components of an Adaptive Unit are parameter driven. These parameters are not specific to any particular business. One embodiment for providing parameters to these components includes a Definition Database (21). There may be one or more Occurrence Databases (22) depending on the number of business processes (22a, 22b, 22c, 22d) supported by the business application for which the Adaptive Application is being adapted. The Occurrence Database (22) includes generic (also referred to as meta model driven) tables that are not specific to any particular business.