Patent ID: 7376933

Claim:
A method for building application content using an open model driven architecture, comprising: specifying one or more view templates, each view template having static or dynamic content sections or both, wherein at least one of the one or more templates has both static and dynamic content sections; specifying a controller element for transforming an application definition presented in a first grammar into application content, said controller specifying one or more transformations that apply said one or more view templates; creating an application definition using said first grammar, said application definition containing a description of the application logic of the output content desired; generating said application content by transforming said application definition as specified by said controller element using said one or more view templates; wherein the generating step includes replacing dynamic content sections in said one or more view templates with information derived from said application definition; wherein the dynamic content portion employs a standardized naming convention and wherein the controller maps the application definition to the view template based on matching names for dynamic content.