Patent ID: 8041591
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A business process operation method implemented by at least one computer, which comprises an adapter, a service achieved by a business process, and the business process composed of a plurality of activities, the activities executed by the computer and the adapter executing a conversion between a message format used by an activity of the business process and a message format used by a service whose execution is instructed by the activity if the message format used by the activity of the business process and the message format used by the service are different, the method comprising steps of: referring in the at least one computer to business process definition information and adapter definition information which are stored in advance in a storage; comparing in the at least one computer the message format used by the activity of the business process, which instructs execution of the service with the message format used by the service; generating in the at least one computer information indicating a format conversion is unnecessary for the activity of the business process on condition that at least a part of a response message format, which is a response of the service, is utilized by a service whose execution is instructed by another activity to be executed and that the message format used by the activity of the business process corresponding to the response message format is not utilized by an activity preceding the another activity, if the message format used by the activity of the business process and the message format used by the service are different; storing the information in the storage as format conversion decision definition information; the adapter referring to the format conversion decision definition information for the activity stored in the storage when the activity of the business process instructs execution of the service; and the adapter skipping the format conversion between the message instance used by the activity of the business process and the message instance used by the service when the format conversion decision definition information indicates that the format conversion is unnecessary.