Method and apparatus for application program specification and run time execution providing for the separation of business application programming and user interface programming

摘要

A method and apparatus for conducting business via the worldwide Web in which business programming is isolated from Web user interface programming. In accordance with the invention, a gateway servlet interfaces between a consumer's browser's software and a e-business retailer's back-end business software running, for instance, on a separate mainframe. The gateway servlet receives input information from the consumer and forwards it to the back-end software for business processing. The back-end software returns a user interface record object to the gateway which then instantiates a Java bean and invokes a Java Server Page in order to generate a HTML page to be returned to the user based on the user input information and the business back-end processing thereof.