Patent ID: 7290248

Claim:
A system including a command-line interface for use with a mark-up language, to abstract complexity of enterprise service application program interface (API) programming, comprising: a server computer including a server processor and a plurality of enterprise service API for one of messaging, operation, administration, and management monitoring; a client computer including a processing device and a client operating thereon; an application including a command-line user interface that executes on the client and that receives user input markup language commands, including the name of at least one enterprise service API at the server computer, and operations to be performed therewith; a client command processor that executes on the client and that validates the user input markup language commands, and, for each markup language command converts the markup language command into a command object for communication to a command dispatcher; a client command dispatcher that executes on the client and that receives command objects from the command processor and, for each command object, assigns the command object to one of a plurality of categories corresponding to the enterprise service API specified in the user input markup language commands; and a plurality of client processor modules, including a processor module specific to each category of enterprise service API, wherein each processor module receives the command objects assigned to its category, and uses the command object to perform operations at the corresponding enterprise service API located on the server computer.