Systems and methods for modeling and manipulating a table-driven business application in an object-oriented environment

摘要

Systems, methods, and computer program products consistent with the invention analyze a business application's data, operations, and relationships and create a corresponding object oriented programming (OOP) model of the application, comprising OOP objects, functions, and operators corresponding to the business application's entities. Each OOP entity in the model entity accurately represents the data, relationships, and rules associated with the corresponding business entity. Once converted to an OOP model, standard OOP tools may be used to understand, manipulate, design, redesign, analyze, optimize, and modify the business application model independent of the native business application system. Entities from the OOP model may be converted into corresponding business application entities having the same properties and installed in the native business application system.