Method, apparatus, and program for code reusability and maintainability in XML-driven projects

A data processing system for code reusability and maintainability, the data processing system comprising:

• a bus;
• a communications unit connected to the bus;
• a storage device connected to the bus, wherein the storage device includes computer usable program code;
• and
• a processor unit connected to the bus, wherein the processor unit executes the computer usable program code to:
• provide a utility class, wherein the utility class defines a utility method, the utility method being written in an object oriented programming language;
• receive a markup language request at the server for an entity from a client, the markup language request including a response object name, wherein the response object name is a string representing a desired element name for a markup language response object;
• responsive to receiving the markup language request for attributes for the entity from the client, generate a method call for the utility method, wherein the method call identifies the entity and the response object name;
• generate the markup language response object and assigns assign the response object name to the markup language response object;
• and
• return the markup language response object named as the response object name to the client.

A computer program product, in a computer readable physical storage medium, for code reusability and maintainability, the computer program product comprising:

• instructions, in a utility class, for defining a utility method, the utility method being written in an object oriented programming language;
• instructions for receiving a markup language request at the server for an entity from a client, the markup language request including a response object name, wherein the response object name is a string representing a desired element name for a markup language response object;
• instructions, responsive to receiving the markup language request at the server for attributes for the entity from the client, for generating a method call for the utility method, wherein the method call identifies the entity and the response object name;
• instructions for generating the markup language response object and assigning the response object name to the markup language response object;
• and
• instructions for returning the markup language response object named as the response object name to the client.