Abstract: An inventive system and method for developing and deploying converged services having incoming messages from a network and/or a service includes a graphical front end for creating flows having one or more event match criteria, each event match criteria having corresponding logic, a generator for generating runtime code from the flows, and a runtime engine operable to perform the runtime code, in which an incoming message is matched to one of the event match criteria and the corresponding logic is executed. The logic can be logic performed by the converged service. A user of the inventive system can switch between the flow created in the graphical interface and the runtime code generated from the flow.

Abstract: A service creation and execution platform provides a unified representation for messages and network protocols. Specifically, the platform is flexible and relies on a bootstrapping approach which enables incorporation of new message formats and protocols. Additional capabilities of the platform include a Graphical User Interface which makes specification of network services easier.