System and method for exposing the dynamic web server-side
A system and method for accessing a rich web site is disclosed herein. The method includes serving the web-page as a container on the server-side and instantiating a content of the Web-page with a plurality of JavaScript calls or a plurality of AJAX calls, which allows APIs to access and retrieve information from the Web-page and to process the content of the Web-page.
1. A method executed by a processor for accessing a rich website application on the server-side, the method comprising:
retrieving a webpage of the rich website application on the server-side;
serving the webpage as a container on the server-side;
instantiating a content of the webpage on the server-side with a plurality of JavaScript calls or a plurality of Asynchronous and JavaScript XML (AJAX) calls;
providing a plurality of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for a server-side software to access and retrieve information of the webpage on the server-side;
accessing and retrieving the content of the webpage with a server-side software via at least one of the plurality of APIs;
processing the retrieved content of the webpage on the server-side; and
transmitting the retrieved content to a client-side by serializing the retrieved content.
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein processing the content of the webpage comprises indexing the content for a search.
3. The method according to claim 1 wherein processing the content of the webpage comprises identifying patterns of the content.
4. A system for accessing a webpage of a rich website application on a server-side, the system comprising:
a processor; and
one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of:
retrieving the webpage of the rich website application on the server-side;
serving the webpage as a container on the server-side;
instantiating a content of the webpage on the server-side with a plurality of JavaScript calls or a plurality of Asynchronous and JavaScript XML (AJAX) calls;
providing a plurality of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for a server-side software to access and retrieve information of the webpage on the server-side;
accessing and retrieving the content of the webpage with a server-side software via at least one of the plurality of APIs;
processing the retrieved content of the webpage; and
transmitting the retrieved content to a client-side by serializing the retrieved content.
5. A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium for use on a computer to develop a web application for accessing a webpage of a rich website application on a server-side, the computer program product comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out the steps of:
retrieving the webpage of the rich website application on the server-side;
serving the webpage as a container on the server-side;
instantiating a content of the webpage on the server-side with a plurality of JavaScript calls or a plurality of Asynchronous and JavaScript XML (AJAX) calls;
providing a plurality of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for a server-side software to access and retrieve information of the webpage on the server-side;
accessing and retrieving the content of the webpage with a server-side software via at least one of the plurality of APIs;
processing the retrieved content of the webpage; and
transmitting the retrieved content to a client-side by serializing the retrieved content.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein the step of transmitting the content to a client-side comprises converting the content to HTML.