System and method for creating target byte code

A method to execute a computer program written for a first computer architecture on a second computer architecture in which a source code for the computer program has been compiled into byte code of a first type by converting the byte code of the first type and markup language into byte code of a second type, the markup language defining the user interface of the computer program, when there is direct mapping of the data elements of the first type of byte code to data elements of the second type of byte code, wherein when there is no direct mapping of at least some of the data elements of the first type of byte code to data elements of the second type of byte code, a bridging byte code is inserted into the second type of byte code, the method comprising:

• receiving a first byte code for a computer program at a byte code interpreter of a computer system, wherein said first byte code is of said first type and contains one or more data elements of said first byte code type;
• receiving a markup language code at said byte code interpreter of said computer system, wherein said markup language code refers to at least one said data element in said first byte code, wherein the markup language data elements comprises data structures defining colors, lines, shapes, text and layout position in markup language code;
• referencing at least one byte code mapping library at the byte code interpreter, wherein said byte code mapping library contains one or more instructions for mapping one of said first byte code data elements of said first type to one or more of said second data elements of said second byte code type, or a bridging byte code only when there is no direct mapping of data elements in order to compensate for a lack of programming constructs equivalence between the first byte code and second byte code;
• mapping at least a portion of said first byte code data elements to one or more second data elements of said second byte code type, or inserting a bridging byte code;
• converting at least a portion of said second data elements into said second byte code;
• converting at least a portion of said markup language code into a source code, wherein said source code comprises at least one of the Java programming language, Common Language Infrastructure programming language, or the ActionScript programming language source code format;
• compiling at least a portion of said source code into a third byte code;
• converting at least a portion of said third byte code into said second byte code or inserting a bridging byte code;
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• executing the computer program using the functional aspects of the byte code of the second type and the display aspects of the markup language from the second byte code.

A method to execute a computer program written for a first computer architecture on a second computer architecture in which a source code for the computer program has been compiled into a byte code of a first type by converting the byte code of the first type and a markup language into byte code of a second type, the markup language defining the display aspects or user interface of the computer program operative with the byte code of the second type, when there is direct mapping of the data elements of the first type of byte code to data elements of the second type of byte code;

• wherein when there is no direct mapping of at least some of the data elements of the first type of byte code to data elements of the second type of byte code, a bridging byte code is inserted into the second type of byte code, the method comprising:
• receiving a first byte code and a markup language at a byte code interpreter of a computer system, wherein the markup language data elements comprises data structures defining colors, lines, shapes, text and layout position in markup language code, wherein the first byte code is compiled from source code comprising Common Language Infrastructure programming language;
• converting said first byte code into an intermediate language format;
• parsing the intermediate language format to create an intermediate data structure wherein the intermediate data structure represents the syntactic structure of the first byte code, the intermediate data structure used as a mapping reference between the first byte code and the second byte code;
• converting the markup language into an object graph;
• converting the object graph and the intermediate data structure into a second byte code comprising SWF byte code language format;
• the converting including inserting a bridge byte code to the second byte code, the bridging byte code used only when there is no direct mapping of data elements in order to compensate for a lack of programming construct equivalence between the first byte code and second byte code,
• executing the computer program using the functional aspects of the byte code of the second type and the display aspects of the markup language from the second byte code.