Netscape Communications Corporation

Borland Software Corporation

Boland Software Corporation

Daniel Paul Veditz

David Brett Schnepper

An implementation of a self-contained application may be distributed and automatically executed within a network client environment, such as within a web browser environment. The implementation of the self-contained application includes a first package that includes a manifest and an archive of files. The archive of files includes a markup language file that is the initial file to be processed and that includes instructions for initiating execution of the application. In the implementation, the archive of files also includes other files needed to execute the application and a second package that may be of the same type as the first package. The manifest file includes an initial file identifier that instructs the application to process the markup language initial file before processing the other files.

Self-contained applications that are applied to be received by and processed within a browser environment and that have a first package that includes a manifest file and an archive of files including a markup language file and second package

The present invention comprises a National Language Support (NLS) system with Language Driver Identifiers (LDIDs) embedded as locale-specific descriptors within data objects. The Identifiers, which may be in the form of a system-comparable ID (e.g., ID byte), are employed by the system in several places to record the particular language (driver) which was used when a given data object was created or modified. The LDID methodology of the present invention allows the system to intelligently process data objects created or modified under one language driver with those created or modified by a different language driver. In the event of incompatibilities, the system provides error handling routines, including a preferred interface for warning users of incompatibilities and receiving user choices in response thereof.

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Felton, CA, United States of America

Daniel Paul Veditz