A system and method to integrate various collaboration systems with a browser based application systems. The system and method includes the application system and the collaboration system communicating with each other to transmit notifications and requests from a terminal coupled to both systems. The communication interface between the browser based application system and the collaboration system is based on a protocol such as HTTP protocol. The APIs for the inbound communications to the application system are transparent to the collaboration system and the APIs for the outbound communications are transparent to the application system. Parameter passing is done using configurable placeholders in URL and script templates.