Specific Method of Setting Transport-Specific Properties From Transport-Agnostic Clients

A method of providing a programming interface in conjunction with a mapping mechanism, the programming interface being independent of an underlying transport, comprising:

• setting a plurality of user-defined properties,
• wherein the plurality of user-defined properties are transport-agnostic properties;
• including an associated value in each of the plurality of user-defined properties, wherein a collection of the plurality of user-defined properties being sent on an outgoing flow;
• including retrieval information of the plurality of user-defined properties and associated values, the retrieval information being used in an incoming flow;
• and
• providing the collection of the plurality of user-defined properties to a deployer, the deployer providing the mapping mechanism to the collection of the plurality of user-defined properties,
• wherein the deployer is capable of determining the mapping mechanism for the endpoint via an underlying transport.

A system of setting transport-specific properties from transport-agnostic clients and servers, comprising:

• a user-defined code including a plurality of user-defined properties with associated values, the plurality of user-defined properties being transport-agnostic;
• a mapping information suitable for mapping the user-defined code for an underlying transport
• a deployer for providing the mapping information for the user-defined code;
• a runtime engine communicatively coupled to the deployer, the runtime engine for mapping the user-defined code in accordance with the mapping information provided by the deployer,
• wherein the runtime engine sends the mapped user-defined code in a manner specific to a protocol to a designated endpoint.

A system for allowing transport-agnostic clients and servers to set transport-specific properties, comprising:

• means for writing user-defined code including user-defined properties and associated values, the user define code being sent to an endpoint,
• wherein the user-defined code is transport-agnostic;
• means for determining an underlying transport;
• means for generating mapping information based on the transport information;
• means for providing the mapping information of the user-defined code.