Appeal 2006-3356
Application 10/244,722
OPINION
Najmi describes a business to business (B2B) message adapter
generation tool for use in describing a B2B message adapter in an enterprise
computer system. In one embodiment, the enterprise computer system is a
J2EE (JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition) based enterprise computer system. The
B2B messenger is coupled to a JAVA Message Service API that provides an
interface between the B2B messenger and the various business components
included in the J2EE based enterprise computer system. The B2B
messenger subscribes to a JAVA Messenger Service (JMS) topic. A
subscription manager receives a JMS message and directs a message adapter
to modify the JMS message into a format consistent with a receiving partner
based upon the corresponding subscription rule and a corresponding
document template (B2B schema). The message adapter is provided by the
B2B message adapter generation tool that takes as its input two classes, a
sender message format and a receiver message format that are heuristically
analyzed to form a correspondence mapping between the two formats.
Najmi col. 3, l. 49 - col. 4, l. 27.
Najmi depicts, in Figure 1, a Business to Business to Customer system
100. The system includes a J2EE based computer system (e-business) 102
for communication with associated partners regardless of their respective
transport protocols or document schemas. The reference notes, however,
that respective systems can be in any technology other than J2EE. Najmi
col. 4, l. 58 - col. 5, l. 5; col. 12, ll. 22-30. Figure 2 (col. 6, l. 3 - col. 7, l. 8)
depicts an Enterprise JAVA Bean (EJB) implementation of e-business 102,
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