Embodiments of the innovation relate to, in a development device, a method of generating a backend application for execution by a server device. The method comprises receiving, by the development device, ontology information associated with an enterprise domain, the ontology information including syntactic information and semantic information; applying, by the development device, a metaprogramming engine to the ontology information to generate the backend application; and forwarding, by the development device, the backend application to the server device.