Patent ID: 6738975
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A system for integrating a plurality of computer applications, comprising:an enterprise messaging system, said enterprise messaging system passing messages between said computer applications; a database storage system coupled to said enterprise messaging system, said database storage system storing a plurality of data transformation configurations and a plurality of rules; an integration service coupled to said enterprise messaging system, said integration service comprising a data transformation engine using the data transformation configurations stored in said database storage system and a rules evaluation engine using the rules stored in said database storage system; a plurality of agent-adapters coupled to said enterprise messaging system, each agent-adapter coupled to a respective one of said computer applications, each agent-adapter passing messages between said enterprise messaging system and said respective computer application, wherein each said agent-adapter comprises an adapter portion including an object and an agent portion encapsulating said object and each said adapter is selected from the group consisting of a source adapter, a target adapter, and a reply adapter; and a message schema operating in conjunction with said agent-adapters to parse individual message elements from the computer applications.