Patent ID: 6978422
Filing Date: 2005-12-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a computer system for managing resources, a method for displaying managed object data associated with managed resources, the method comprising the steps of: receiving at least one managed object selection and receiving a task selection to apply to the at least one managed object selection; identifying at least one view definition corresponding to the task selection that defines a view with which to display managed object data related to the at least one managed object selection; displaying the view corresponding to the at least one view definition on a graphical user interface of the computer system; obtaining the managed object data related to the at least one managed object selection; displaying the managed object data related to the at least one managed object selection within the view on the graphical user interface of the computer system; the method further including the steps of: retrieving a data dictionary containing a master view definition, task definitions, view definitions and managed object data definitions, the data dictionary further defining, for each task definition, at least one use case that defines a mapping of at least one view definition to a portion of at least one managed object data definition; and displaying the master view definition on the graphical user interface such that a user of the computer system can provide the at least one managed object selection and a task selection that are received in the step of receiving; wherein the step of identifying at least one view definition corresponding to the task selection comprises the steps of: selecting a task definition in the data dictionary that corresponds to the task selection; and for each of the at least one object selection, selecting a use case that is associated with the task definition in the data dictionary and that corresponds to the at least one object selection, the use case identifying a view definition defining a view in which to display managed object data related to the at least one managed object selection to which a management function associated with the task selection is applied; and wherein the data dictionary is a document object model based upon parsing operations performed on a collection of markup language statements that define task definitions, view definitions, and object definitions.