Patent ID: 7317912

Claim:
A method of arranging data transfer in a data system between software components implementing mobile communication applications in a software development environment, the data system comprising at least a first software component and a second software component, at least one of the software components comprising program code for controlling a mobile station, the data system further comprising adapters for the different software components and a broker component for transferring data between different adapters, wherein an adapter provides an interface to the broker component for at least one software component connected to the adapter, and wherein addressing information is maintained in the broker component about the adapters in the data system, in which method a first adapter in the data system is activated for a first software component and a second adapter for a second software component in response to a need for data transfer between the first software component and the second software component, and data is transferred in the broker component between the first adapter and the second adapter in accordance with the addressing information.