Patent ID: 7237225

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of designing integration software, the method comprising: specifying an integration design that accomplishes a data transfer between different specified application software systems, wherein: each of the application software systems includes a database capable of storing data related to business transactions and instructions that, when executed, cause data related to the business transactions to be processed, and that is made up of at least one integration design pattern, the at least one integration design pattern comprises at least one functional atom that describes at least one of a data processing functional atom, a data persistency functional atom, or a helper functional atom, and the integration-design specifying including: receiving user input indicating a selection, from a repository that identifies a set of processes used in data transfers, of integration design patterns needed to accomplish the data transfer between the different specified application software systems; and receiving user input that specifies a sequence by which the selected integration design patterns are to be performed; and generating, from the specified integration design, software code that controls the specified data transfer.