1. A method for executing ERP application requests in a computer-implemented ERP data processing system via a network, comprising the steps of: (a) transmitting a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) input form to a browser executed by a client computer in said network for display on a monitor attached thereto; (b) receiving a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request from said browser to access said ERP System, wherein said request optionally includes data entered by said user into an HTML input form; (c) transferring any data entered by said user into said HTML input form and any data stored in said requested HTML page into said ERP application API (d) transferring control to said ERP application for execution; (e) receiving output data from said ERP application in response to said transmitted data and request; (f) merging said output data from said ERP application into a strongly typed Java object; (g) transforming said strongly typed Java objects into a transmittable format, such as XML or HTML, and (h) transmitting said HTML or XML object to said browser for display on said monitor attached to said client computer.