5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the steps of receiving, identifying, and generating are performed by a metadata engine configured to provide application metadata to one or more components of the software application.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the steps of receiving, identifying, and generating are performed by a metadata engine configured to provide application metadata to one or more components of the software application. 6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the metadata engine is capable of interoperating with any software application that makes use of XML-based application metadata.