Abstract: A system and method for integrating business logic implemented in Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) into a user interface framework are disclosed. A design-time environment includes an analyzer that analyzes selected EJBs and generates a model representation of the selected EJBs, and further includes a metadata provider to provide additional metadata to the model representation. A runtime environment has a generic model component to access the selected EJBs based on their model representation, and executes the selected EJBs in the user interface framework.

Abstract: A system and method for integrating business logic implemented in Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) into a user interface framework are disclosed. A design-time environment includes an analyzer that analyzes selected EJBs and generates a model representation of the selected EJBs, and further includes a metadata provider to provide additional metadata to the model representation. A runtime environment has a generic model component to access the selected EJBs based on their model representation, and executes the selected EJBs in the user interface framework.

Abstract: A pluggable model framework in a model-view-controller (MVC) environment. The pluggable model framework contains elements that relate to one or more of a development tool for an application, a metamodel that defines development objects associated with the application, a generator for generating code based on the metamodel, and an application run-time. The pluggable model framework includes an extension point that corresponds to at least one of the elements. A plug-in interfaces to the pluggable model framework by way of the extension point. The plug-in corresponds to a model used by the application.

Abstract: A method and apparatus, including a computer program product, implementing techniques for providing a context building tool that facilitates the building of a context from an existing model or context. The tool can receive a model specification and generate a storage area structure including multiple nodes, each node corresponding to a model class, multiple attributes, each attribute corresponding to a model class property, and relationships between the nodes and attributes based on the relationships between the model classes. The tool can also receive a context specification and generate a source storage area structure including one or more source nodes, each source node corresponding to a target node, one or more source attributes, each source attribute corresponding to a target attribute, and relationships between the source nodes and source attributes based on the relationships between the target nodes and target attributes.

Abstract: A server computer provides an HTML-page for displaying data to a user of a client computer by identifying meta-data with definitions, creating a data object by using meta-data, creating a control entity, providing a first reference from the control entity to the data object, providing a second reference from the data object to the meta-data to enable the control entity to access the meta-data via the references, extracting the definitions from the meta-data into the control entity, and creating the HTML-page by the control entity.