CODE GENERATION THROUGH METADATA PROGRAMMING FOR MOBILE DEVICES AND WEB PLATFORMS TO EASE ACCESS TO WEB SERVICES

摘要

A system and method for making a web service available to remote clients. In one illustrative embodiment, the web services are provided by a server. The server can use a metadata program to generate client side libraries that facilitate the development and maintenance of client side applications. A metadata binder on the server can be used to interface with the client side libraries. In operation, web services can be provided to mobile clients by generating Web Services Description Language function definitions. From those Web Services Description Language function definitions, Java objects can be created. Libraries can be generated from the objects for a plurality of platforms. The server can then communicate with the mobile clients operating on the plurality of platforms through the generated libraries.