Patent ID: 8539003
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of linking a customer support system to a table-based business application composed in a table-based programming format, comprising: generating an object-oriented programming model representing the table-based business application using translation rules for converting from the table-based programming format to an object-oriented programming format, the object-oriented programming model being composed in the object-oriented programming format; before running the table-based business application, processing, using a processor, the object-oriented programming model by using an object-oriented tool running in an object-oriented environment to identify an error in the object-oriented programming model, the error in the object-oriented programming model corresponding to a problem in the table-based business application; displaying the object-oriented programming model; displaying a marker at a location of the error in the object-oriented programming model; correcting the error in the object-oriented programming model; and automatically modifying the table-based business application composed in the table-based programming format to correct the problem in the table-based business application based on the correction of the error in the object-oriented programming model composed in the object-oriented programming format using retranslation rules for converting from the object-oriented programming format to the table-based programming format.