Nokia Internet Communications, Inc.

Steve Lewontin

Leon Thrane

An Interface Markup Language (&ldquo;IML&rdquo;) file specifies abstract server interface definitions called &ldquo;operations&rdquo; that return abstract content descriptions called &ldquo;entities&rdquo;. Each entity specifies a set of operations that the entity can invoke. The combined set of entities and operations together define an abstract flow diagram of an application. A computer readable medium has instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a sequence of steps in order to make application code that is based on a flow diagram of an application. The steps include making an IML file that includes an operation list section delimited by an operation list marker and an entity list section delimited by an entity list marker. The operation list section specifies a series of operations supported by an application server. The entity list section describes a set of entities which constitute an interface to an application running on the application server. The steps further include compiling the IML file to make application code.

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Steve Lewontin