Patent ID: 6854120

Claim:
A method for executing enterprise resource planning (ERP) application requests in a computer-implemented ERP data processing system via a network, comprising the steps of: (a) transmitting a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) input form to a browser executed by a client computer in said network for display on a monitor attached thereto; (b) receiving a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request from said browser to access said ERP System, wherein said request optionally includes data entered by said user into an HTML input form; (c) transferring any data entered by said user into said HTML input form and any data stored in said requested HTML page into said ERP application API; (d) transferring control to said ERP application for execution; (e) receiving output data from said ERP application in response to said transmitted data and request; (f) merging said output data from said ERP application into a strongly typed object, the strongly typed object being an object where arbitrary, implicit conversion between object types is not permitted; (g) transforming said strongly typed object into a transmittable format, such as XML or HTML; and (h) transmitting said HTML or XML object to said browser for display on said monitor attached to said client computer.