System and method for supporting packaging, publishing and republishing of wireless component applications

摘要

An application generation environment (e.g. an IDE tool) coordinates development of component-based applications using an interconnected model of objects serialized in a first format of a structured definition language (e.g. XML). Applications are generated for execution on a client device (e.g. a wireless mobile) and a supporting stateful proxy gateway and primarily define the processing of messages communicated over a network between the client device and an external data source, such as a service or other remote end-point, via the gateway. Application artifacts are packaged by the environment in a bundle for distribution to gateways with the model of objects transformed to a second compact form. The bundle may have various attributes defined at publishing, including the re-definition of the invocation end-point contained in a service descriptor, be digitally signed and deposited in a repository (e.g. WebDAV) and published to a registry (e.g. UDDI). Bundles may be retrieved from repositories, verified, re-deposited and republished (e.g. to a private domain) by the environment.