System and method for flexible application hosting on a wireless device

An application server for providing an application to a wireless device, the application server comprising:

• a computer processor;
• a storage for a module envelope in an offline state, the module envelope representing an indivisible unit used in execution of the application, the offline state being one of states described in a relational information of an application information table referenced by the wireless device,
• wherein a raw state and an executable state are other states of the states described in the relational information,
• wherein the raw state is for conversion to the executable state, has the dependency information and in a form having a reduced size compared to the executable state.
• wherein the raw state and the executable state describing module envelopes in the wireless device;
• the computer processor selecting the module envelope from a plurality of the module envelopes according to the relational information, and providing the selected module envelope to the wireless device.

A method of dynamically hosting an application program on a wireless device, the method comprising:

• loading an application into the wireless device, the application comprising a plurality of module envelopes, each of the plurality of module envelopes representing an indivisible unit used in execution of the application;
• referencing an application information table, the application information table comprising relational information comprising a state of each of the plurality of module envelopes and dependency information between each of the plurality of module envelopes, the state selected from the group consisting of a non-executable state, and an executable state, wherein the non-executable state represents a module envelope linked to the dependency information, in a form having a reduced size compared to the executable state and is optionally located in storage remote from the wireless device;
• selecting a module envelope from the plurality of the module envelopes according to the relational information;
• configuring an envelope state of the selected module envelope according to a predefined module envelope state;
• and
• providing the selected module envelope to an application manager for changing the configuration of the application on the wireless device.

A wireless device for dynamically hosting an application program, the wireless device comprising:

• a framework for loading an application, the application comprising a plurality of module envelopes, each of the plurality of the module envelopes representing an indivisible unit used in execution of the application;
• the framework referencing an application information table, the application information table comprising relational information comprising a state of each of the plurality of module envelopes, and dependency information between the plurality of module envelopes, the state selected from the group consisting of a non-executable state, and an executable state, wherein the non-executable state represents a module envelope linked to the dependency information, in a form having a reduced size compared to the executable state and is optionally located in storage remote from the wireless device;
• a configuration module for configuring an envelope state of the selected module envelope according to a predefined envelope state;
• a communication manager for providing the selected module envelope;
• and
• an application manager of the framework for changing the configuration of the application on the wireless device according to the configured envelope state of the selected module envelope.