SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING AND EXECUTION OF PLATFORM-NEUTRAL GENERIC SERVICES CLIENT APPLICATIONS

摘要

A system and method of building component applications are provided. Component applications are executed on terminal devices, which communicate with a schema-based service via a network and the Internet. The component applications comprise data components, presentation components, and message components, which are written a structured definition language such as XML code. The component applications further comprise workflow components which can be written as a series of instructions such as in a subset of ECMAScript, and are embedded in the XML code.