Patent ID: 8423895

Claim:
A method for implementing a control that provides functionality to a user of an application executed by a computing platform, the control using a plurality of file sets, each of the plurality of file sets comprises a user interface file and a code file, each of the plurality of file sets implementing an at least one task associated with the functionality; the user interface file of each of the file sets describes a display of the file set; the code file of each of the file sets is specific to the file set, the method comprising: aggregating in runtime the interface file only, from each of the plurality of file sets, into a unified user interface file, the unified user interface file describing the display of the control on a display device; and associating an at least one event with the at least one task implemented by a code file of one file set from the plurality of file sets; wherein the event comprises activating a display of the one file set from the display of the control; and wherein the associating is for executing the at least one task.