Patent ID: 8191041

Claim:
In a system comprising a client computer, a server computer and at least one communication medium coupling the client computer and server computer, a method, performed by the server computer, of pre-processing a file comprising commands programmed in a scripting programming language prior to delivery of the file to the client computer, the method comprising acts of: (A) identifying, within the file, a plurality of commands each characterized by a different, predefined syntax; (B) identifying, for each of the plurality of commands, at least one handler program to invoke, the at least one handler program identified for each one of the plurality of commands being different than the at least one handler program identified for each other of the plurality of commands, the at least one handler program identified for at least one of the plurality of commands being operable to remove debug statements from the file; and (C) invoking the at least one handler program identified in (B) for each one of the plurality of commands to perform at least one pre-processing function.