A visual tool for rapid integration of enterprise software applications

Marhaim, Inbal ; Mordechai, Eli ; Bartolini, Claudio ; Bergman, Ruth ; Ariel, Oren ; Peltz, Christopher

HP Development Company

关键词: application;    integration;    automation;    HCI;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2010-29

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

Integrating software applications is a challenging, but often very necessary, activity for businesses to perform. Even when applications are designed to fit together, creating an integrated solution often requires a significant effort in terms of configuration, fine tuning or resolving deployment conflicts. This is often the case when the original applications have been designed in isolation. This paper presents a visual method allowing an application designer to quickly integrate two products, taking the output of a sequence of steps on the first product and using that as input of a sequence of steps on the second product. The tool achieves this by: (1) copying UI components from the underlying applications user interface; (2) capturing user interaction using recording technology, rather than by relying on the underlying data sources; and (3) exposing the important business transactions that the existing application enables as macros which can then be used to integrate products together.