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These connector objects will change only if there are significant semantic changes to the ERP system. The Application Connector implements the logical mapping of object data and behavior onto corresponding ERP application features.

The motivation for the separation of the Data and Application layers is the structure of a ERP system. The Data Connector is tightly coupled to a particular version of the ERP run-time environment and independent of the specific application being run.

It does not extend the functionality of the ERP system. The Connector has detailed knowledge of the nature, purpose, and meaning of individual panels and data items, as well as of the business logic that applies to them. The Connector also knows the configuration of the underlying ERP system and how best to access specific items. The ERP Connector will support multiple concurrent client requests through multi-threading.

There are no restrictions on the number of connections by a client, nor on the number of requests performed by a single connection. The Connector may limit the number of concurrent clients or requests by queuing new requests.

During a connection, clients must specify the ERP identity that will be used to perform the requests. ERP uses this identity to control access to panels and database fields. The API provides both connection and application objects. Connection objects provide methods for establishing a connection and requesting specific application objects.

Application objects provide specific functionality. Application objects may aggregate other application objects, and may be collections, with the caveat that updates that involve multiple panels may not execute atomically. The full API is not specified at this time because it depends on requirements and restrictions that are to be identified during product development. Basic application objects consist of attributes that correspond to data values, and methods that correspond to actions that apply to the object.

The methods a particular application object provides will vary, but certain ones are likely to be standard. These include the Get field method which populates the object attributes from the ERP application for a particular instance as specified by a set of key values passed to Get field as parameters.

The complementary Set field method persists the current attribute values to the ERP backend. Other standard methods include Add , Delete , and VerifyValues. The later method verifies the acceptability of the current attributes against the edit checks and business logic defined for this object in the backend, but does not persist the values. In addition to the standard set, a particular object may have any number of specific methods that correspond to special behavior for that object.

Although the Connector API is described as a local Java object, performance consideration may require that the Connector exists on a remote computer. The Connector API is a synchronous interface with no callbacks or events. This reflects the functionality of the API. The Data Connector interface is based on the concept of a message definition, which is a named specification of a ERP panel and the mapping of data fields to panel fields.

Through a Connection object, the client obtains Message objects that provide methods for manipulating the panel contents. An outline of the Connector follows:. Package com. The panel is not aware that a program is operating on it; thus, it performs all regular actions: checking security, executing PeopleCode attached to record fields, workflow actions. The message definition specifies the panel name, action mode, search record definition, and panel field-mapping through which the program gets at the panel data.

The API provides functions to:. The strongly typed object language is converted to a strongly typed declarative language by looping over the contents of the strongly typed object and creating a declarative object for each object value.

Then the structure results are converted to a well-formed XML stream. It produces a tabular column of courses, consisting of course name, and other course information. A sample of the structures in Java is:.

The Java objects are serialized into XML using a serialization routine. No matter the specific mechanism, the approach is that each item in the list is serialized as an XML fragment. The output of the serialization is a list of Courses, for example:. For example, as supplied by ERP, information about the meeting time and name of the instructor of a course are provided on different panels.

The XML streams from the two panels can be merged to present all the information about a course on a single web page. This concludes the description of the preferred embodiment of the invention. The following describes some alternative embodiments for accomplishing the present invention.

For example, any type of computer, such as a mainframe, minicomputer, or personal computer, could be used with the present invention. In summary, the present invention discloses a method and apparatus for accessing and updating ERP Application data via the World Wide Web of the Internet.

The foregoing description of the preferred embodiment of the invention has been presented for the purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed. Many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. It is intended that the scope of the invention be limited not by this detailed description, but rather by the claims appended hereto.

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Open or view cases online. What are its benefits? ArchiMate has been designed to be lean, unambiguous, and as applicable as possible. Helps clarify and visualize the relationships between domains - business, application and technology.

Helps design, evaluate, and communicate the outcomes of decisions and changes within and between domains. Encourages consistency across architectural models and domains. Allows architects to determine and plan for the potential impact of change.

How does it do it? Three layers of the ArchiMate Core Framework represent the levels an enterprise can be described at:. Aspects in ArchiMate broadly model the people, processes and things that exist within these layers. Use of Colors The ArchiMate metamodel uses colors to distinguish between layers and aspects. The semantics are not formal or compulsory, but relevant colors can be used freely throughout the model to distinguish between and emphasize certain elements.

The use of color in ArchiMate models is entirely at the modeler's discretion. Relationships with Other Standards ArchiMate complements other modeling standards, which can be used in conjunction with ArchiMate to help build a holistic view of your enterprise. Composite elements can be used to link and click through modeling domains. For example, a business process in the ArchiMate business layer could link to a BPMN business process diagram, showing the detail of the process including events, activities and decisions within the process.

Likewise an application component that is being designed and built internally can be linked to UML models to define the use cases teh application supports and a UML class diagram to model the internal design plus dynamic models such as sequence diagrams to understand class integrations. BPMN ArchiMate supports the modeling of high-level, internal processes and workflows in a broader context.

More specific Business Process Modeling languages like BPMN can be used to provide the detailed sub-process and task modeling down to an executable level. Enterprise Architect offers extensive functionality for business process modeling and the BPMN standard. This indicates to the model consumers there is an underlying model structure that includes other elements. Thanks to this underlying model structure, UML and modeling languages like ArchiMate can co-exist cohesively and seamlessly within the same Enterprise Model.

The use of ArchiMate and UML within the same modeling environment offers a means of documenting the higher-level architecture with ArchiMate, and UML for creating detailed design components. Furthermore each Toolbox shows separate pages for different aspects of the language - Active Structure, Behavioral and Passive Structure. This provides clear differentiation between different types of elements in different layers such as Business Service, Application Service, Technology Service.

Model Patterns are a simple way of building new models, which cover the various architectural views necessary to build an ArchiMate model.

Organization Viewpoint The Organization Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that describes the roles and actors of an organization or entity, or part of an organization such as a department or section.

Business Process Cooperation Viewpoint The Business Process Cooperation Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that describe the business processes showing how they relate to each other and also with their environment. Product Viewpoint The Product Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that describe the value that the products offer to external parties such as customers or other stakeholders It allows them to visualize one or more products' composition in terms of their constituent business, application, or technology services and any number of contracts or other agreements.

Application Cooperation Viewpoint The Application Cooperation Viewpoint pattern creates elements a diagram that describe the relationships between applications components and their locations, the services they provide or utilize and the information that flows between them. Application Usage Viewpoint The Application Usage Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that describes how application services and the applications that realize them are used to support any number of business processes.

Implementation and Deployment Viewpoint The Implementation and Deployment Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that relate programs and projects to the parts of the architecture that they implement.

Technology Viewpoint The Technology Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that describes the software and hardware technology elements supporting the Application Layer, such as physical devices, networks, or system software such as middleware operating systems, databases and other containers.

Technology Usage Viewpoint The Technology Usage Viewpoint pattern creates elements that show how applications are supported by the software and hardware technology: the technology services are delivered by the devices; system software and networks are provided to the applications. Information Structure Viewpoint The Information Structure Viewpoint pattern creates elements that show the structure of the information used in the enterprise or in a specific business process or application, in terms of data types or information elements.

Service Realization Viewpoint The Service Realization Viewpoint pattern creates elements that show how one or more business services are realized by the underlying processes and sometimes by application components. Thus, it forms the bridge between the business products viewpoint and the business process view. Physical Viewpoint The Physical Viewpoint pattern creates elements and diagrams that contains equipment one or more physical machines, tools, or instruments that can create, use, store, move, or transform materials.

It also describes how the equipment is connected via the distribution network and allows the visualization of other active elements that are assigned to the equipment. Layered Viewpoint The Layered Viewpoint pattern creates a number of elements and diagrams that allow the visualization of multiple layers of an Enterprise Architecture in a single diagram.

The partitioning which uses the Grouping element allows the representation of elements such as Business Processes in dedicated layers and elements such as Application Services in services layers. Any number of layers can be included but the diagram is most expressive when dedicated and service layers are interleaved.

Motivation Viewpoints. Stakeholder Viewpoint The Stakeholder Viewpoint pattern creates stakeholders, the internal and external drivers for change, and the assessments in terms of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of these drivers. Goal Realization Viewpoint The Goal Realization Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that models the relationships between goals including the decomposition to sub-goals.

Goal Contribution Viewpoint The Goal Contribution Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram from the motivation aspect that models the influence that Goals, Requirements, Principles and Constraint have on each other. Principles Viewpoint The Principles Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that models the relationship between Goals and Principles. Requirements Realization Viewpoint The Requirements Realization Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that model the realization of Goals into Requirements and Constraints and then how these Requirements are realized by core elements such as Business and Application Services.

Color has been introduced to add appeal to the diagram and to distinguish the element types. Motivation Viewpoint The Motivation Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that completely covers the motivational aspect from a given stakeholder's perspective defining a Driver, an Assessment, a number of Goals and the Principle that is applied and the Requirements and Constrains that are needed to qualify the Principle.

Strategy Viewpoints. Strategy Viewpoint The Strategy Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that models the strategic intent of an organization by articulating a Course of Action and the Capabilities and Resources needed to achieve it providing a modeled Outcome.

Capability Map Viewpoint The Capability Map Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that allows Capabilities to be visualized in a nested hierarchy. It permits a Business Architect or other stakeholder to create a structured overview of the resources available to an enterprise.

The map commonly shows two or three levels of resources across an entire enterprise. Outcome Realization Viewpoint The Outcome Realization Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that model how core elements deliver the high level business value. Implementation and Migration Viewpoints.

Project Viewpoint The Project Viewpoint pattern creates elements and diagrams that contains elements that model the management of architecture change.

This includes the transition from a baseline to a target enterprise architecture is complex and can be constrained by Portfolio Management, Project Management and a number of other disciplines. Migration Viewpoint The Migration Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that model the transition from a baseline to a target enterprise architecture.

Implementation and Migration Viewpoint The Implementation and Migration Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that model relate programs and projects to the parts of the architecture that they implement.

To store data in a DataObject , pass the data to the constructor or call SetData. You can add data in multiple formats to the same DataObject. If you want the data you add to be retrieved in its native format only, call SetData String, Boolean, Object with the autoConvert parameter set to false.

Data can be retrieved from a DataObject in any format which is compatible with GetData. For example, text can be converted to Unicode. To retrieve data in the format in which it was stored, call GetData with the autoConvert parameter set to false. To determine what formats the data is stored in, call GetFormats. To determine if a format is available, call GetDataPresent with the desired format. NET Framework 2. To retrieve data of a particular format from the DataObject , first call the appropriate Contains Format method such as ContainsText to determine whether the DataObject contains data in that format, then call the appropriate Get Format method such as GetText to retrieve the data if the DataObject contains it.

Special considerations may be necessary when using the metafile format with the Clipboard. Due to a limitation in the current implementation of the DataObject class, the metafile format used by the. NET Framework may not be recognized by applications that use an older metafile format. In this case, you must interoperate with the Win32 Clipboard application programming interfaces APIs.

An object must be serializable for it to be put on the Clipboard. See System. Serialization for more information on serialization. If your target application requires a very specific data format, the headers added to the data in the serialization process may prevent the application from recognizing your data. Initializes a new instance of the DataObject class. Initializes a new instance of the DataObject class and adds the specified object to it. Initializes a new instance of the DataObject class and adds the specified object in the specified format.

Indicates whether the data object contains data in the WaveAudio format. Indicates whether the data object contains data that is in the FileDrop format or can be converted to that format. Indicates whether the data object contains data that is in the Bitmap format or can be converted to that format. Indicates whether the data object contains data in the UnicodeText format.

Indicates whether the data object contains text data in the format indicated by the specified TextDataFormat value. Returns the data associated with the specified data format, using an automated conversion parameter to determine whether to convert the data to the format.