| 摘要 |
An integrated design environment enables the formation of business applications for usage on a commerce server system. The business applications consist of a variety of components including but not limited to business objects, business steps, behavior and display filters, and business rules arranged as a workflow. The design environment provides graphical interfaces for arrangement and modification of the components. The project based design environment includes project files with components stored as files, with the files often being functionally interdependent. The design environment provides for integrated arrangement of the components via the convenience of a graphical interface, and provides for validation of the interdependent components once arranged. A business application can thereby be viewed and/or developed with automatic crosschecking and generated documentation of the various interdependent component parts. This arrangement is facilitated, in part, through an interim metadata representation that encodes basic information for use by a semantically richer internal object model, and the overall commerce server. |
