Patent ID: 6065116
Filing Date: 2000-05-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An apparatus comprising:a. a plurality of autonomous application programs resident in a data processing system wherein said data processing system includes a number of interconnected computer platforms, and wherein each of said plurality of application programs is resident on a different one of the number of computer platforms; andb. configuring means for automatically configuring said plurality of application programs so that each of said application programs can communicate with selected other ones of said plurality of application programs wherein said configuring means further comprises:a. user interface means for receiving user configuration information;b. application program interface means coupled to each of the plurality of application programs for receiving configuration requirements for each of the plurality of application programs; andc. configuration means coupled to said user interface means and to said application program interface means for determining a plurality of configuration settings, each of the plurality of configuration settings corresponding to one of the application programs, said configuration means writing each of said plurality of configuration settings to the corresponding computer platform so that the corresponding application program can read the configuration settings.