US Patent 7490316 Method and apparatus to implement adaptive scripting tool

A meta-data driven adaptive scripting tool which employs a framework across clients and servers to achieve dynamic binding for user defined commands at runtime and support different scripting languages residing in a heterogeneous distributed network. In a preferred embodiment the Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) defines the unified extension mechanism used, the meta-data associated with commands is in XML format, and the adaptive scripting tool is written in Java.