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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1999
Timothy Wilson, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for conducting business via the worldwide Web in which 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. The 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 back-end processing thereof.