Patent ID: 11861334
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. An apparatus for facilitating defining a REpresentational State Transfer (REST) interface in a computing environment, the apparatus comprising:
one or more processors;
a non-transitory processor-readable storage device including instructions for:
receiving, at a user interface, resource-to-operation pairs;
storing the resource-to-operation pairs in a model abstraction as a flat structure;
converting the resource-to-operation pairs in the flat structure into REST connectors, wherein the REST connectors are encoded in a conventional interface description language, wherein the resource-to-operation-pairs in the REST connectors are capable of being translated from the flat structure to a hierarchical structure in the conventional interface description language and, wherein the hierarchical structure is capable of being translated to the flat structure;
storing the REST connectors in webpage code;
receiving, at the webpage code, a request from the client system for a service of a process step of the process-based software application;
translating, performed by a REST connector in the webpage code, the request to a message that conforms with the service;
receiving, at the webpage code, a response from the service;
processing, performed at the webpage code, the response from the service; and
accessing, via a browser located at the client system, data retrieved by the processing of the response.