International Business Machines Corporation

Brenda H High

Peter J Lynch

Rayne Anderson

A method of automatically generating a markup language message from an application specific interface object, as well as generating an application specific interface object from a markup language message is provided. The method can include receiving an application specific interface object and identifying an object table specified therein. Objects listed in the object table can be automatically identified. The objects can be serialized by representing the objects in the markup language message. The resulting markup language message can be a representation of the application specific interface object.

Interfacing objects and markup language messages

A method of automatically creating an electronic document definition can include querying an application using a meta data interface of the application to obtain meta data describing at least one other interface of the application. The meta data can be received responsive to the querying. The meta data can be processed to determine at least one electronic document definition describing the at least one other interface in accordance with the received meta data and a message specification of the application.

Method and apparatus for generating electronic document definitions

A method of automatically creating an electronic document definition can include querying an application using a meta data interface of the application to retrieve meta data describing at least one application specific object for interacting with the application. The meta data can be received responsive to the querying step. The meta data can be processed to determine an electronic document definition describing the at least one application specific object in accordance with the received meta data.

A method of building an application response message can include receiving a master file specifying a message format for populating a particular data object of an application. The master document can specify element names which correspond to fields of the data object. A technique for mapping particular data items specified by at least one flat file to the element names specified in the master file can be determined; and a markup language representation of the data object can be generated according to the determined mapping technique and the specified message format.

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