This section contains component information that is independent of the platform on which it will run. The user-defined interfaces are optional. So, a list of each of these types of interfaces should be provided in the database. We describe our implementation of the above schema in LDAP, and suggest where these attributes might be placed in the MDS format. Environment-specific component attributes should reside under the machine category in the current MDS format.
Interface objects resides below their corresponding component entry in the tree.
Also, a component can have any number of interfaces, method prototypes.