Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for replicating data of a database server (10) by at least one replication server (20), the method comprising the following steps performed by the at least one replication server (20): a. sending a database request (40) to the database server (10), wherein the database request (40) comprises metadata (421c, 421d) indicating replication data requested by the at least one replication server (20); and b. receiving a database response (40?) from the database server (10), wherein the database response (40?) comprises the requested replication data indicated by the metadata (421c, 421d).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for granting a user (U1) secure access to one or more resources (D1, D2, D3) accessed by a process (P1), the process (P1) being defined in a SOA registry (100) and comprising one or more process-steps (S1, S2, S3), each process-step (S1, S2, S3) accessing one or more resources (D1, D2, D3) stored in a SOA repository (200), the method comprising the following steps: a. during an execution of the process (P1), for each resource (D1, D2, D3) accessed by at least one of the process-steps (S1, S2, S3), creating an entry (E1, E2) in the SOA registry (100) determining the accessed resource (D1, D2, D3); b. creating a process-instance-role (R1) in the SOA registry; c. for each resource (D1, D2, D3) accessed by at least one of the process-steps (S1, S2, S3), creating an access privilege (AP1) in the SOA repository (200) that grants access to the respective resource (D1, D2, D3) for the process-instance-role (R1); and d.

Abstract: The invention concerns a SOA-registry (1) for the automatic deployment of at least one SOA-application onto at least one platform, the at least one SOA-application comprising one or more components, the SOA-registry (1) comprising: a. at least one SOA-application description (A1) being related to one or more abstract component descriptions (AC1, AC2, AC3) describing the components of the at least one SOA-application; b. at least one concrete component description (CC11, CC12, CC21, CC22, CC31) for each of the one or more abstract component descriptions (AC1, AC2, AC3), the at least one concrete component description (CC11, CC12, CC21, CC22, CC31) comprising one or more requirements of the respective component on a target platform; and c. at least one platform descriptor (P1, P2) comprising one or more properties of the at least one platform.

Abstract: A system for enterprise information integration is described. The system is based on different layers: the data sources, source ontologies corresponding to the data schema of the data sources, an integration ontology integrating the different source ontologies, a level of query input, preferably in the form of a web service. Between the levels, mapping rules are used. These mapping rules and the entire system are based on predicate logic. The queries are answered with the help of the rules using inference based on predicate logic.