System and method for exposing the dynamic web server-side

• US 8,527,860 B1
• Filed: 12/02/2008
• Issued: 09/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Appcelerator Incorporated (Axway Software SA)
• Original Assignee: Appcelerator Incorporated (Axway Software SA)
• Inventors: Colton, Paul, Sarid, Uri, Lindsey, Kevin Edward
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US12/326,110
• Time in Patent Office: 1,736 Days
• Field of Search: 715 25-256, 715/273, 715/700, 715/731, 715/744, 715/760, 715/762, 715/763, 715/825, 709/201, 709/202, 709/203, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219, 709/223, 719/328, 719/331, 719/332
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation

Abstract

A system and method for accessing a rich web site is disclosed herein. The method includes serving the web-page as a container on the server-side and instantiating a content of the Web-page with a plurality of JavaScript calls or a plurality of AJAX calls, which allows APIs to access and retrieve information from the Web-page and to process the content of the Web-page.

Claims

1. A method executed by a processor for accessing a rich website application on the server-side, the method comprising:

retrieving a webpage of the rich website application on the server-side;

serving the webpage as a container on the server-side;

instantiating a content of the webpage on the server-side with a plurality of JavaScript calls or a plurality of Asynchronous and JavaScript XML (AJAX) calls;

providing a plurality of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for a server-side software to access and retrieve information of the webpage on the server-side;

accessing and retrieving the content of the webpage with a server-side software via at least one of the plurality of APIs;

processing the retrieved content of the webpage on the server-side; and

transmitting the retrieved content to a client-side by serializing the retrieved content.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein processing the content of the webpage comprises indexing the content for a search.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein processing the content of the webpage comprises identifying patterns of the content.

4. A system for accessing a webpage of a rich website application on a server-side, the system comprising:

a processor; and

one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of;

retrieving the webpage of the rich website application on the server-side;

serving the webpage as a container on the server-side;

instantiating a content of the webpage on the server-side with a plurality of JavaScript calls or a plurality of Asynchronous and JavaScript XML (AJAX) calls;

providing a plurality of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for a server-side software to access and retrieve information of the webpage on the server-side;

accessing and retrieving the content of the webpage with a server-side software via at least one of the plurality of APIs;

processing the retrieved content of the webpage; and

transmitting the retrieved content to a client-side by serializing the retrieved content.

5. A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium for use on a computer to develop a web application for accessing a webpage of a rich website application on a server-side, the computer program product comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out the steps of:

retrieving the webpage of the rich website application on the server-side;

serving the webpage as a container on the server-side;

instantiating a content of the webpage on the server-side with a plurality of JavaScript calls or a plurality of Asynchronous and JavaScript XML (AJAX) calls;

providing a plurality of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for a server-side software to access and retrieve information of the webpage on the server-side;

accessing and retrieving the content of the webpage with a server-side software via at least one of the plurality of APIs;

processing the retrieved content of the webpage; and

transmitting the retrieved content to a client-side by serializing the retrieved content.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the step of transmitting the content to a client-side comprises converting the content to HTML.