Managing Consistent Interfaces For Business Objects Across Heterogeneous Systems

Abstract

A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to an individual material bill of material and/or an order tracking view business object.

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         8 . A computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging information regarding user interface information for tracking progress and completion of a specified order by collecting information from related business transaction documents, the medium comprising:
 program code for receiving via a message-based interface exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry and from a heterogeneous application executing in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services, a first message for responding to a query requesting tracking of a status of a specified purchase order by using follow-on documents and their respective processing statuses, the first message including a message package hierarchically organized as:
 a purchase order tracking view enterprise resource planning (ERP) by purchase order response message entity; and 
 a purchase order tracking view package and a log package, the purchase order tracking view package including a purchase order tracking view entity, the purchase order tracking view entity including a identifier (ID) and a type code, and the log package including a log entity; and 
   program code for sending a second message to the heterogeneous application responsive to the first message.   
     
     
         9 . The computer readable medium of  claim 8 , wherein the purchase order tracking view package includes at least one item package, each item package including a business transaction document reference. 
     
     
         10 . The computer readable medium of  claim 8 , wherein each item package includes at least one or more of the following: a product package, at least one quantity package, at least one party package, a date package, at least one predecessor business transaction document reference package, at least one logistic package, and at least one schedule line package. 
     
     
         11 . A distributed system operating in a landscape of computer systems providing message-based services defined in a service registry, the system comprising:
 a graphical user interface comprising computer readable instructions, embedded on tangible media, for responding to a query requesting tracking of a status of a specified purchase order by using follow-on documents and their respective processing statuses, the instructions using a request;   a first memory storing a user interface controller for processing the request and involving a message including a message package hierarchically organized as:
 a purchase order tracking view enterprise resource planning (ERP) by purchase order response message entity; and 
 a purchase order tracking view package and a log package, the purchase order tracking view package including a purchase order tracking view entity, the purchase order tracking view entity including a identifier (ID) and a type code, and the log package including a log entity; and 
   a second memory, remote from the graphical user interface, storing a plurality of service interfaces, wherein one of the service interfaces is operable to process the message via the service interface.   
     
     
         12 . The distributed system of  claim 11 , wherein the first memory is remote from the graphical user interface. 
     
     
         13 . The distributed system of  claim 11 , wherein the first memory is remote from the second memory.