Oracle International Corporation

Mark A Johnson

Nicole Laurent

David E Knox

Darrell M Waite

Paul J Zuraw

An accessed indicator is encoded in a uniform resource locator (URL) of a first request message, for a first action, to determine if a first request is for a native behavior that provides client-side platform specific actions implemented by the client device that has client-side resources instead of a server in communication with the client device. The first request message represents the first request to access the native behavior. The first action is implemented using a client-side resource of the client device without transmitting the first request from the client device to the server that the first request was originally destined for. A second request message with a second request specifying a second action is intercepted. It is determined that the second action cannot be performed by any of the client-side resources of the client device. The second request specifying the second action is transmitted from the client device to the server. A response is received from the server for the performed second action.

Determining whether to perform requests at a server or at a client device based on resources provided by the client device

A system and method for facilitating native client device application interaction with a web application. An example method includes monitoring request messages output from the web application; determining one or more of the request messages include an indication that the one or more request messages represent a request to implement an action that can be performed via one or more resources of a client device, and providing a signal in response thereto; and implementing the action in response to the signal. In a more specific embodiment, the method further includes employing a client request interceptor in communication with the web application to forward requests output by the web application and determined by the interceptor to be requests for native content or functionality to a native behavior dispatcher, which communicates with a native container application to facilitate implementing the action.

Mechanism for determining whether to redirect a request originally destined for a server based on a uniform resource locator

A system and method for facilitating efficient interaction between a client device and a server. An example method includes receiving at a server, a request for server configuration information sent to the server by a client device, and then employing a first web service in communication with the server to convey configuration information about a server to a client device in response to the request message received therefrom by the server. The configuration information includes information pertaining to known capabilities that may be offered by the server to the client device. Generally, embodiments described herein provide various features for facilitating configuring service endpoints in native client applications at runtime, thereby enabling implementation of changes to server-side components that a client application invokes or communicates with, without needing to change the client application.

Configuring service endpoints in native client applications

A menu application provides an integrated interface for launching multiple mobile applications from a dynamically configurable menu. Each of the mobile applications is associated with a servlet that provides the application's menu data to the menu application. The servlet may query design-time data and application run-time data to generate the menu data for the application. Additionally, the set of applications included by the menu application in a menu list may be based on a user authorization level, such that the menu list only includes applications that the user is authorized to access.

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