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 whic h 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. T he 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 ba ck- end processing thereof.