Patent ID: 7941783

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a software development tool, identification of a design-time data feed for at least one run-time data feed that is referenced in a software application under development, wherein one or more displayed elements are displayed in the software application under development and reference the at least one run-time data feed, wherein the referenced at least one run-time data feed provides run-time data for display at run-time and the design-time data feed provides design-time data for display if the run-time data is not accessible by the software development tool at design-time; storing said identification of said design-time data feed for the referenced at least one run-time data feed as metadata associated with said software application under development, wherein the identification of the design-time data feed is a key in a key-value pair, wherein the key-value pair associates the design-time data feed with the one or more displayed elements, wherein the design-time data feed is a database; accessing, by the software development tool at design-time, the design-time data feed in place of the referenced at least one run-time data feed; and displaying, via the software development tool, the one or more displayed elements with the design-time data from the design-time data feed, wherein the design-time data feed is separate from the software application under development.