Patent ID: 7313570

Claim:
A method for mapping Enterprise Java Bean (“EJB”) attributes to database schema, the method comprising: providing a first metamap including one or more abstracted variable characteristics of a first database schema, including abstracting, from a mapping of EJB attributes to columns of the first database schema, one or more variable characteristics of the first database schema, the abstracting further comprising moving table and column descriptions from the mapping into a table file linked to the first metamap with a table identifier, including names of the abstracted variable characteristics, deleting from the table file the names of the abstracted variable characteristics, moving mapping descriptions from the mapping into a field mapping file linked to the first metamap with a mapping identifier, including names of the abstracted variable characteristics, and deleting from the field mapping file the names of the abstracted variable characteristics; and creating from the first metamap a second metamap for a second database schema including varying one or more of the abstracted variable characteristics to conform to the second database schema.