Patent ID: 7831919

Claim:
A computer implemented method for creating a web based frontend for backend web services, the backend web services being separate applications from the web based frontend, the method comprising the steps of: responsive to a publisher graphically defining at least one web based form, automatically providing associated underlying code, by a computer; receiving, by the computer, a plurality of transforms from the publisher, the received plurality of transforms comprising at least: a transform for mapping at least one input parameter from the at least one defined web form to a call to a separate backend web service; a transform for processing at least one return value from the separate backend web service; and a transform for outputting at least one message to a user of the frontend; combining, by the computer, the received plurality of transforms and the underlying code for the at least one defined web form into a frontend to the separate backend web service; and publishing, by the computer, the frontend such that the separate backend web service can be accessed by third party users through the frontend.