Patent Document ID: 20120137304
Application ID: 13179690
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for integration of a first application and a second application, the first application comprising an e-business service application and being provided by a business-to-business (B2B) server, the B2B server being accessible via one or more B2B gateways, the first application running on a first computer system, the second application running on a second computer system, the method comprising: integrating an Entity-Relationship model of the first application in a plug-in of the second application; displaying, by the plug-in, graphical user interface components representing elements of the integrated Entity-Relationship model to a user of the second application; wherein the graphical user interface components: enable specification of a mapping of one or more placeholders of an electronic document of the second application to one or more elements of the Entity-Relationship model, whereby each placeholder is a container for one or more data values, and enable flexible adapting of the specified mapping to an updated version of the Entity-Relationship model or to changes in an arrangement of the data values within the electronic document; and submitting a message, by the plug-in, to the B2B server via one of the one or more B2B Gateways, the message comprising the one or more mapped data values and information regarding which element of the Entity-Relationship model the one or more data values were mapped to.