Patent ID: 7519960

Claim:
A method for debugging an application collaboration in an interchange server, the method comprising: creating a collaboration object from a template; configuring the collaboration object by binding said collaboration object to connectors or other collaboration objects; deploying the collaboration object; creating an instance of an implementation of IRteDebuggerCallbackPOA portable object adapter; attaching a debugger to a remote running application collaboration executing a business process, the act of attaching including passing the instance of an implementation of IRteDebuggerCallbackPOA to the running application collaboration; initiating a debugging session; receiving a set of breakpoints to be inserted into designated points in the debugging session; inserting the set of breakpoints into designated points in the debugging session; sending a notification to the attached debugger from the instance of IRteDebuggerCallbackPOA when the running application collaboration reaches one of the one or more breakpoints; stopping the running of the application collaboration in response to the notification; retrieving a status of the business process from the instance of IRteDebuggerCallbackPOA; and presenting a user with information relating to where the business process has stopped, the status of the process flow, and how to continue the business process.