Patent ID: 7260581

Claim:
A computer system comprising: a plurality of clients, each said client comprising a plurality of user interface classes and at least one class that provides access to a database; a server comprising a plurality of servlets, at least some of said servlets providing at least one of a database and server access capability to each said client; and said database comprising a plurality of tables, at least one of said tables comprising at least one error proofing example entered by a user and meta-data entered by the user that describes the at least one error proofing example, wherein said meta-data comprises at least one of an error stage and an error type, at least one of said tables further comprising at least one failure mode associated with the error proofing example, the error proofing example including at least one failure mode and meta-data defined by the user when creating the at least one error proofing example wherein said database accessed by each said client via said server, wherein at least one of said plurality of user interface classes initializes and displays at least one form that provides the user access to input additional error proofing examples based on user privileges defined by an administrator.