Patent ID: 7603359

Claim:
A method, within a first computer system including at least a hardware processor and a hardware storage, for maintaining federated name context bindings in a name space, said method comprising: the first computer system binding, with a durable subscription, a first reference within a first name space of the first computer system to a second name space on a second computer system including at least a hardware processor and hardware storage, wherein said step of binding includes: the first computer system transmitting to said second computer system a data record identifying a naming context in said second computer system associated with said first reference on said first computer system; and creating an entry in a database in the hardware storage of the first computer system containing a naming context reference returned by the second computer system; administering with a graphical user interface of said first computer system said binding of said first reference to said second name space, said administering including: presenting a plurality of graphical objects each representing a respective one of a plurality of namespaces including the first name space and the second name space; presenting a plurality of graphical objects each representing a respective one of a plurality of name references distributed among the plurality of namespaces and graphically indicating associations between the plurality of name references and the plurality of name spaces; presenting a plurality of graphical binding indicators indicating a plurality bindings between the plurality of name references, said plurality of graphical binding indicators including a first graphical binding indicator indicating the binding between the first reference within the first name space and the second name space; and creating at least one of the plurality of graphical binding indicators and an underlying one of the plurality of bindings via a graphical manipulation in the graphical user interface; the first computer system establishing a durable subscription at said second computer system for said binding utilizing communication with said second computer system over a network; based upon the durable subscription, the first computer system automatically receiving notification of a change affecting said binding from said second computer system; and in response to the notification, the first computer system rebinding said first reference in said first name space, wherein said rebinding further comprises updating the entry in the database to reflect rebinding to a third name space on said second system all references in said first name space on said first computer system that are bound to said second computer system.