Accessing a ERP application over the internet using strongly typed declarative language files

A method of converting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data in a database managed by an ERP application and accessed through an ERP application programming interface (API) and ERP Message Agent API (MAAPI) to strongly typed data in a Java object comprising the steps of:

• reading an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) file containing a definition of said Java object and attributes of the Java object;
• parsing said XML file to identify the definition and the attributes of the Java object;
• creating the Java object based upon the definition and the attributes;
• populating said Java object with data from said ERP data;
• and
• wherein said creating and populating of the Java object steps comprises the steps of:
• opening a connection through said ERP API to said ERP Message Agent API (MAAPI);
• setting an Application object identifier, username and password using said MAAPI;
• setting search key values;
• instructing said ERP application to process said populated Java object;
• creating the Java object and setting the attributes of the Java object with said ERP Application data for every scroll level;
• and,
• closing said connection to said ERP API.