Patent ID: 8799319
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for facilitating the reuse of logic implemented in an existing software application, the method comprising: receiving, at a computer system, a selection of an existing software application, wherein the existing software application is built using an application technology that is not Web service-enabled; generating, by the computer system, metadata based on data parsed from program code for the existing software application; receiving, at the computer system, one or more customizations to be applied to the metadata; modifying, by the computer system, the metadata based on the one or more customizations; and generating, by the computer system, artifacts for a Web service based on the modified metadata, the Web service being configured to expose a Web service operation that, when executed, causes an existing operation implemented in the existing software application to be executed, wherein the generating the artifacts for the Web service based on the modified metadata comprises: