Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for facilitating dynamic modification of existing software objects defined in a strongly-typed programming language. The apparatus includes an invocation framework, an embedder, a reference component, and a development reference component. The invocation framework is configured to pass a loosely-typed base object between a source component and a destination component. The embedder embeds a business object within the base object. The business object is defined at least in part by a type definition having a set of attributes and a name value uniquely associating the type definition to the business object. The reference component references the base object such that typing requirements of the business object are not explicitly enforced in a runtime environment. The development reference component references the type definition within a development environment such that typing for the business object is fixed during source code development and deployment.

Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for matching client interfaces with service interfaces. A client component includes at least one client interface and a target component includes at least one service interface. A data structure for the client component associates at least one client interface in the client component with one target component. For each client interface indicated in the data structure, a determination is made as whether there is one service interface in the target component associated with the client interface that is compatible with the client interface.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment receive a key parameter from a container-managed persistent bean, determine that the container-managed persistent bean is associated with a non-relational data store, creating a web service input message with the key parameter, and invoke a web service function with the web service input message to interface with a non-relational data store. The determination that the container-managed persistent bean is associated with a non-relational data store may be based on deployment description extension settings specified by a bean assembler. In this way, a container-managed persistent bean may be used to access a non-relational data store.