US Patent 8949776 Gateway consumption framework

According to some embodiments, a method and apparatus are provided to display to a developer, a list of business application user interface templates. A selected user interface template from the displayed list of business application user interface templates is received. Business logic definition parameters are also received. Based on the selected user interface template and the received business logic definition parameters, potential services available to be consumed by a business application from a suite of enterprise applications is determined and an indication of the list of potential services to the developer device is transmitted.