Virtual data objects of an electronic device may be represented as one or more resources. A connection independent protocol and implementation of the protocol may be automatically generated from the resources. The syntax and/or semantics of the protocol may be derived from the defined resources, so the protocol may be uniquely configured for each set of uniquely defined resources. The resources may be used to create application schemas used by application developers to efficiently create applications running on user computing systems. The resources may be used to create an embedded adapter that may include programming code enabling data to be read from and/or written to the virtual data objects in the electronic device. During operation, once the user computing system and the electronic device have established connectivity, data may be exchanged between the device and the user computing system through the connection independent protocol.