Dispatching application steps of an application running on an application server in a client/server environment

A method for dispatching steps of at least one application running on an application server of a service portal in a client/server system of a distributed computing environment which can be accessed from client terminals connected to said service portal, the method comprising:

• receiving an input to interact with applications running on a remote application server by receiving an input selecting user interaction elements on client terminals with the aid of a client program;
• transmitting interactions over a telecommunication network to the application server executing the main part of an application;
• creating, at the application, output that contains the next set of possible interactions, and wherein first application steps (109a) can be addressed and invoked by second application steps;
• nesting, at the application server, programming commands used to call at least one of said second application steps which serves as a called sub-routine within at least one of the first application steps;
• returning, at the application server, values to the at least one second application steps;
• discarding, at the application server, nesting paths of called application steps in a case of switching to another application;
• and
• passing, from the application server, binary parameter data when indirectly calling application steps from any client terminal which returns a user-specific identity number to the system.

A method for dispatching steps of at least one application running on an application server of a service portal in a client/server system of a distributed computing environment which can be accessed from client terminals connected to said service portal, the method comprising:

• receiving an input to interact with applications running on a remote application server by receiving an input selecting user interaction elements on client terminals with the aid of a client program,
• transmitting interactions over a telecommunication network to the application server where the main part of an application is executed;
• creating, at the application, output that contains the next set of possible interactions, and wherein first application steps can be addressed and invoked by second application steps;
• nesting, at the application server, programming commands used to call at least one of the second application steps which serves as a called sub-routine within at least one of the first application steps;
• returning, at the application server, values to the at least one of the first application steps;
• and
• discarding, at the application server, nesting paths of called application steps in a case of switching to another application, wherein
• said method allows for specifying expected subsequent application steps in a symbolic manner.