Patent ID: 7152221

Claim:
A computer software application development system comprising: a first group of system users responsible for modifying one or more external resource files written in a markup language, at least one of the external resource files comprising at least one extensible markup language tag associated with at least one of a plurality of platform namespaces; a second group of system users responsible for writing computer software code corresponding to a compiled application program corresponding to the one or more external resource files, the one or more external resource files being external to the compiled application program, the one or more external resource files being configured such that information from the one or more external resource files is obtainable at runtime of the compiled application program without need for compilation of the one or more external resource files; a graphical control locator for locating the one or more external resource files; and a parser for identifying a requested parameter stored in the one or more external resource files at runtime of the corresponding compiled application program.