SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING WORKFLOW OF GENERIC SERVICES TO COMPONENT BASED APPLICATIONS FOR DEVICES

A system and method for representing a workflow for a plurality of components (data, message and presentation components) of a component-based application configured from a page-based application for messaging over a network between a device and a schema-defined service of a data source. The respective data, message and presentation components, selected from a series of presentation pages of the page-based application, have data, message and presentation descriptors in a structured data language representing respective elements embedded in the presentation pages. At least two of the components are operatively coupled to one another. Dependency links associated with events corresponding to the embedded elements are selected to describe the workflow of the components for operation when executed on the device. A set of instructions based on the dependency links are generated for a workflow component of the component based application to coordinate the operation of the other components.