Augmenting middleware communication services

The method of 1, further comprising:

• receiving, from the middleware object, a second transport data structure including a data update;
• reading data, including the updated data, from the second transport data structure;
• determining data storage locations to which the updated data read from the second transport data structure is to be stored;
• issuing a data update command based on the updated data read from the second transport data structure and the determined data storage locations;
• upon receipt of a success response to the data update command, calling the data transport process to build a third transport data structure with a reference to the received second transport data structure and including data representative of the successful update and to transmit the third transport data structure to the middleware object;
• and
• upon receipt of a failure response to the data update command:
• issuing a rollback command;
• and
• calling the data transport process to build a fourth transport data structure with a reference to the received second transport data structure and including data representative of the update failure and to transmit the fourth transport data structure to the middleware object.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium, with instructions stored thereon, which when executed by at least one processor of at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to:

• receive a service call from a middleware object, the service call including a request for data;
• identify data to be included in a response to the data request;
• retrieve the identified data;
• and
• call a data transport process to build a first transport data structure containing the retrieved data and to transmit the first transport data structure to the middleware object.

A system comprising:

• at least one processor, at least one memory device, and at least one network interface device;
• an application stored on the at least one memory device and executable by the at least one processor to store data in a database and provide application functionality within a first networked computing environment via the at least one network interface device, at least a portion of the application functionality callable via one or more application services;
• a middleware interface module stored on the at least one memory device, the middleware interface module including a set of services executable by the at least one processor, the services including:
• a download service to receive data download requests with regard to middleware objects, a data download request including at least a middleware object identifier, a response to the data download request generated by:
• retrieving, from the database, identifiers of data items relevant to the requesting middleware object;
• retrieving, from the database, data items corresponding to the retrieved data item identifiers;
• and
• generating and transmitting a data structure including the retrieved data items to the middleware object of the middleware object identifier.