INTERCEPTING AND PROCESSING DATABASE COMMANDS

A hybrid approach that combines a small "native" shell and a rich web-based user-interface (UI) is used to develop an application. The shell portion includes a database adapter developed for the targeted platform. The web-based UI can be shared between different devices (mobile/non-mobile) that can host a web-browser. Once the UI has been developed it can be used across mobile devices and desktop devices. A database proxy/adaptor intercepts database calls to be performed on a database defined according to a first specification. The database calls are intercepted before they can be executed against the database. The database adapter processes the database calls to be performed against a different database. The results are returned to the caller as if the database command was performed following the first specification against the database identified in the database command.