Inventors:
Adam Bosworth - Seattle WA, US
Richard Burdon - New York NY, US
Alexander Khesin - Hoboken NJ, US
Alexander Lloyd - New York NY, US
Farokh Eskafi - Brooklyn NY, US
Ken Ong - Clyde Hill WA, US
Terry Lucas - Mill Creek WA, US
Alexander Bosworth - Mercer Island WA, US
Assignee:
BEA Systems, Inc. - San Jose CA
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
Providing a framework for developing, deploying and managing sophisticated mobile solutions, with a simple Web-like programming model that integrates with existing enterprise components. Mobile applications may consist of a data model definition, user interface templates, a client side controller, which includes scripts that define actions, and, on the server side, a collection of conduits, which describe how to mediate between the data model and the enterprise. In one embodiment, the occasionally-connected application server assumes that data used by mobile applications is persistently stored and managed by external systems. The occasionally-connected data model can be a metadata description of the mobile application's anticipated usage of this data, and be optimized to enable the efficient traversal and synchronization of this data between occasionally connected devices and external systems.