Representational State Transfer Communications via Remote Function Calls

A system comprising:

• at least one first computing system comprising at least one data processor and
• at least one second computing system comprising at least one data processor executing a business application backend system having a protocol-independent resource controller;
• wherein the backend system:
• receives one or more service requests from the at least one first computing system specifying requested resources, the service requests being in both Remote Function Call (RFC) format and in Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) format;
• and
• fulfills the one or more service requests using the protocol-independent resource controller.