Patent ID: 7617485

Claim:
An apparatus for pointing an action attribute of an electronic application system which performs a process concerning an application from one of applicant terminals targeted to applicants such as residents or enterprises by using actions representing individual process businesses necessary for proceeding with the process concerning the application, action components representing individual business factors constituting each of said process businesses and having a nested structure and programs for execution of said business factors, said action attribute pointing apparatus for electronic application system comprising: a storage unit for storing an action attribute file including: component name correspondence information for making the correspondence between an action name and at least one action component name and defining a first execution order of the action components when the action name corresponds to plural action component names, further making the correspondence between the action component name and plural nested action component names and defining a second execution order of the nested action components, and program name correspondence information for making the correspondence between said action component name and a program name assigned to said program to specify said program; a display unit for displaying definition information concerning the component name correspondence information and the program name correspondence information stored in the storage unit; an input unit for inputting the definition information concerning said component name correspondence information and the program name correspondence information; an execution unit for retrieving the component name correspondence information stored in the storage unit using the action name obtained from the application received from the applicant terminal as a key to specify the action component names and the execution order corresponding to the action name, retrieving the program name correspondence information stored in the storage unit using the specified action component names as keys to specify the program names corresponding the action component names, and executing the programs identified by the specified program names in order of the specified first execution order and the specified second execution order; and control unit for making the display unit display a screen for updating the definition information concerning the component name correspondence information stored in the storage unit, when at least one of the first execution order and the second execution order is changed, receiving update information for updating at least one of the first execution order and the second execution order from the input unit, and updating the component name correspondence information based on the received update information without updating the program name correspondence information.