Provided are an execution monitoring tool, a method and a computer program product for monitoring execution of an hierarchical visual program. Execution progress reports are sent to an execution monitoring controller which maps the report data to its own representation of the hierarchical program to...http://www.google.de/patents/US6748583?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6748583 - Monitoring execution of an hierarchical visual program such as for debugging a message flow