Patent Application

App. No. 12/909,993

Abstract

Claims (33)

1 . A method, comprising:

listening on a network port for a network connection request from an information server;

establishing a socket connection with the information server after the network connection request is received;

receiving a request message through the socket connection;

identifying a session bean to respond to the request message; and

sending a response message to the information server.

2 . The method of claim 1 , in which the network port is configurable by an administrator.

3 . The method of claim 1 , in which receiving the request message comprises receiving an identifier of the session bean and arguments for the session bean.

4 . The method of claim 3 , in which the response message comprises a header having a status indicating whether the session bean has completed successfully.

5 . The method of claim 4 , in which when the session bean fails the status comprises a description of an error encountered by the session bean.

6 . The method of claim 4 , in which when the session bean executes successfully the response message further comprises a data response.

7 . The method of claim 1 , in which the request message comprises at least one of a find bean request, an invoke method request, and a release bean request.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising performing user authentication before sending the response message.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising maintaining the state of the session bean after sending the response message.

10 . The method of claim 1 , in which the response message sent to the information server is delivered to a mobile device.

11 . An application server, comprising:

a container for performing operations for an information server; and

a resource adapter for processing an inbound connection from the information server and an outbound connection to the information server.

12 . The application server of claim 11 , in which the container creates session beans to perform the operations.

13 . The application server of claim 11 , in which the outbound connection couples the resource adapter to a database of the information server.

14 . The application server of claim 11 , in which the inbound connection couples the resource adapter to a JavaScript routine executing on the information server.

15 . The application server of claim 11 , in which the resource adapter is configured to decode a request message received through the inbound connection.

16 . The application server of claim 11 , in which the resource adapter is configured to generate a response message through the outbound connection.

17 . A computer program product, comprising

a computer-readable medium comprising:

code to listen on a network port for a network connection request from an information server;

code to establish a socket connection with the information server after the network connection request is received;

code to receive a request message through the socket connection;

code to identify a session bean to respond to the request message; and

code to send a response message to the information server.

18 . The computer program product of claim 17 , in which the medium further comprises code to perform user authentication before sending the response message.

19 . The computer program product of claim 17 , in which the code to send the response message sends a header with a status of the session bean and, if the session bean is successful, a data response.

20 . The computer program product of claim 17 , in which the code to receive the request message comprises code to decode at least one of a find bean request, an invoke method request, and a release bean request.

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