Patent ID: 6628305
Filing Date: 2003-09-30
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A graphical user interface for managing and administering a plurality of heterogeneous datastores, comprising an extensible, object-oriented graphical user interface (GUI) framework for providing a consistent look and feel for an application that interfaces to the GUI framework and manages and administers the plurality of heterogeneous datastores, and for providing a consistent look and feel for the plurality of heterogeneous datastores accessed by the applications, wherein the GUI framework is extensible by means of a plug-in facility in the GUI framework through which support for additional datastores can be added, so that the plurality of heterogeneous datastores can be aged using one consistent user interface and wherein the GUI framework includes a list of datastores accessible from the application and the datastore list provides a mechanism for the application to maintain a list of zero or more connected datastores.