Apparatus and method for data modeling business logic

1 . A computer readable medium storing executable instructions to define a data modeling system, comprising executable instructions to:

specify named modular semantic transformation objects, each containing a function, a type and metadata; and

combine modular semantic transformation objects, as permitted based on type and metadata constraints, in order to create composite functionality represented by a composite modular semantic transformation object.

2 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein said executable instructions to specify named modular semantic transformation objects include functional language code to specify one or more modular semantic transformation objects.

3 . The computer readable medium of claim 2 further comprising executable instructions to convert a functional language code modular semantic transformation object to corresponding imperative programming language code.

4 . The computer readable medium of claim 3 further comprising executable instructions to process said imperative programming logic code in a managed code platform.

5 . The computer readable medium of claim 4 further comprising executable instructions to produce imperative programming language code hosted by a managed code platform selected from Java and .NET.

6 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions for strongly typed lazy stateless evaluation of said modular semantic transformation objects.

7 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to inspect and decompose a modular semantic transformation object value by type.

8 . The computer readable medium of claim 7 further comprising executable instructions to evaluate the structure of said value and relate said value to user interface components in a registry.

9 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to facilitate access to modular semantic transformation objects using an application program interface.

10 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to specify named modular semantic transformation objects that contain metadata selected from: a category, a hint, a description, use information, history information, a classification, a design and a version.

11 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to present said modular semantic transformation objects in a workspace.

12 . The computer readable medium of claim 11 further comprising executable instructions to define an application program interface to access said workspace.

13 . The computer readable medium of claim 12 further comprising executable instructions to define a container application to access said application program interface.

14 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to provide modular semantic transform object entity and expression analysis.

15 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to transform modular semantic transform objects into corresponding imperative code existing as a loaded class available to a container application.

16 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to combine a plurality of composite module semantic transformation objects.

17 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to link said composite modular semantic transformation object with a data source, said composite modular semantic transformation object operating on data from said data source to transform said data.

18 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to process said modular semantic transformation objects to produce byte codes.

19 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to facilitate public application program interfaces, including a public application program interface to support at least one of building a modular semantic transformation object, evaluating a modular semantic transformation object, and looking up a modular semantic transformation object.

20 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to define modular semantic transformation objects selected from transient, customized, session, model, and shared modular semantic transformation objects.