Abstract: An enterprise integration system is coupled to a number of legacy data sources. The data sources each use different data formats and different access methods. The integration system includes a back-end interface configured to convert input data source information to input XML documents and to convert output XML document to output data source information. A front-end interface converts the output XML documents to output HTML forms and the input HTML forms to the XML documents. A middle tier includes a rules engine and a rules database. Design tools are used to define the conversion and the XML documents. A network couples the back-end interface, the front-end interface, the middle tier, the design tools, and the data sources. Mobile agents are configured to communicate the XML documents over the network and to process the XML documents according to the rules.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a mobile agent object executes a first method on a first computer, migrates from the first computer to a second computer, and executes a second method on the second computer. The first and second methods and first and second computers are designated in an itinerary. The agent includes both data and executable code which are serialized for transmission from the first computer to the second computer as data. The data containing the agent is then deserialized in the second computer to regenerate the agent in the form of an object. The executable code portion of the agent can be supplemented with code from a home codebase located on another computer.

Abstract: A wound-healing preparation comprises a solution or paste of a non-reducing sugar and iodine in a vehicle consisting essentially of a pharamcologically acceptable glycol, especially glycerol, and, optionally, water. Preferably, the sugar is sucrose, especially that obtained from sugar beet, and the vehicle is substantially anhydrous glycerol. In one preferred embodiment, the preparation is in the form of a veterinary infusible solution and is particularly useful in the treatment of mastitis. In another embodiment, surgical sutures are treated by coating with the preparation to prevent the presence or abscesses around surgical suture lines.

Abstract: A stator assembly 46 for an axial flow rotary machine 10 is disclosed. Various construction details which increase the efficiency of the machine are developed. In one embodiment, the machine includes a circumferentially continuous structural outer case and a circumferentially continuous inner case which is a pressure vessel for the working medium flow path.

Abstract: A compression section of a gas turbine engine having an annular flow path is disclosed. Various construction details which increase the efficiency of an array of rotor blades in the compression section are developed. The annular flow path is contoured to cause the streamlines of the flow path to follow a pattern of varying radial curvature. In one embodiment, a conical surface extending between the base of each airfoil on the inner wall causes a flow path contraction and a cylindrical surface on the outer wall facing the tip of each airfoil enables close clearances.

Abstract: A compression section of a gas turbine engine having an annular flow path is disclosed. Various construction details which increase the efficiency of an array of rotor blades in the compression section are developed. The annular flow path is contoured to cause the streamlines of the flow path to follow a pattern of varying radial curvature. In one embodiment, a conical surface extending between the base of each airfoil on the inner wall causes a flow path contraction and a cylindrical surface on the outer wall facing the tip of each airfoil enables close clearances.

Abstract: The method of fabricating a jet engine casing into two removable halves is disclosed. The method includes turning a cylindrical blank to obtain the radial structural ribs, diametrically slotting axially the outer diameter to receive two mating flanges and boring the inside diameter to remove sufficient material to expose the inner edge of the mating flanges whereby the casing is split along the axial axis.

Abstract: The method disclosed herein is the improved construction of an engine split case by electron beam welding the mating flanges to the split case cylinder where the outer diameter of the case includes "L" shaped rails and radial circumferential flanges.