Patent ID: 8495594

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage device having a computer readable program stored thereon, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to: configure an adapter such that the adapter is specific to a data source, provides a communication link to the data source, converts a format of the data source to a format native to a middleware system, and converts a format of metadata of the data source to a standard metadata format; configure an application interface component to provide a mapping between control and data interfaces of the middleware system to control and data interfaces of the adapter, convert an invocation of a function in the middleware system to an invocation of a function provided by an Enterprise Information System through the adapter, convert the data format of the middleware system to a format native to the Enterprise Information System accessed through the adapter, maintain metadata describing a message format and a function provided by the adapter, and invoke the function provided by the Enterprise Information System.