Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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Google Inc.

Evan W Adams

Robin Jeffries

Daniel J O'Leary

Robert B Jervis

David W Weatherford

Achut P Reddy

Claeton J Giordano

Steven Joseph Saviano

Terrence C Miller

Tom Lyon

David Hendricks

Methods and systems for uniform rendering of text across a plurality of client computing devices using a server are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes sending the document from the server to the plurality of client computing devices and receiving initial text formatting information at the server from a first client computing device in the plurality of client computing devices. The method further includes generating revised text formatting information on the server for the first client computing device in the plurality of client computing devices and sending the revised text formatting information from the server to the first client computing device in the plurality of client computing devices for re-rendering of the document so that the document text appears substantially the same on each client computing device.

Authoritative text size measuring

Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for linking stack messages to information relevant to stack entries and for generating the stack messages by adding link information to the stack messages. The stack messages are displayed to the user without the link information. Portions of the visible stack messages pertaining to the link information are highlighted, and upon selection by the user of the highlighted portion of the stack message, information relevant to the highlighted stack message is automatically displayed, for example, by running an editor, loading the source file corresponding to the message, and displaying the relevant portion of a source file.

Method, apparatus and computer program product for linking stack

Methods and apparati including computer program products link compiler error messages to information relevant to an error causing the compiler to generate the error message by adding link information to the compiler error messages. The error messages are displayed to the user without the link information. Portions of the visible error messages pertaining to the link information are highlighted, and upon selection by the user of the highlighted portion of the error message, information relevant to the highlighted error message is automatically displayed, for example, by running an editor, loading the source file which generated the error message, and displaying the relevant portion of the source file, or by running a help facility and displaying help information relevant to the error.

Method and apparatus for linking compiler error messages to relevant

Methods, apparatti and computer program products allow one or more editors to provide integrated functionality with one or more applications. The methods, systems and computer program products allow a user to select from among several editors which are not integrated with an application, yet interact with the editor and application as though the editor and application were integrated. One or more editors are assigned to each application and commands sent from each application are transformed into a command readable by the editor associated with the application. The command is sent to the editor, which is then able to display files to provide an appearance that the editor and the application are integrated. User generated commands from the editors may be sent to all of the applications or only a subset of the applications to allow the user to control one or more applications from the editor user interface.

Apparatti and computer program products for integrating editors with

A method for the stateless propagation of rename's between hierarchial file name spaces is provided. Under the method any standard rename command may be used on a filename located in a local file system name space (FSNS). Thereafter, when a file is renamed, that rename may be propagated through the use of three steps. First, when files have been renamed in either the local, remote or both FSNS, the filenames in the local FSNS must be matched with the corresponding file names in the remote FSNS. Then, after a match has been made, the current rename state is determined to see if the file was renamed in either, both or neither FSNS, or to see of the filename describes a new file not found in the other FSNS. Finally, after the name history for each file in both the local and remote FSNS's are updated, a propagation can occur which updates any changed file names in the remote FSNS, and also updates the entries in the remote FSNS name table and the local FSNS name table to reflect any such changes. In this way file name changes may be made without the need for a user to execute a special rename command.

Method for stateless rename propagation between hierarchical file name

In a computer system having a hierarchical file structure, a file system is provided which permits users of the system to share a file hierarchy and also have a private hierarchy in which files are automatically copied to as they are modified. Through the system of the present invention, a directory appears to the user as a single directory but may actually comprise files originating from a number of directories which are connected to one another through search links. Each directory has a search link associated with it which contains the path name of the back layer or directory behind it. The first layer seen through the system of the present invention is the front layer, private to the user. The back layers behind the front layer and connected to the front layer through the search links are shared layers accessible to multiple users. Thus transparent to the user of the directory accessible comprises multiple layers comprising shared and private files. The system further provides a copy-on-write feature which protects the integrity of the shared files by automatically copying a shared file into the users private layer when the user attempts to modify a shared file in a back layer.

Method and apparatus for translucent file system

A rename tracking and propagation facility propagates renames, executed in multiple isolated file system name spaces (FSNS), to a remote FSNS on a per object basis without corruption of the remote FSNS names. In propagating an object's rename, the smallest set of additional object's renames which must be applied in the remote FSNS in order to apply the object's rename in the remote FSNS is determined. The set of renames is applied in the correct order, in the remote FSNS, accounting for those renames already propagated to the remote FSNS. A record of renames executed in a FSNS is utilized to determine which renames are to propagated. To accommodate parallel development (multiple users modifying part of the fill system all the time without explicit locking), name collisions in the remote FSNS are detected and resolved. These sets of renames are constructed such that they can be applied to the remote FSNS in any order. Though this may result in the application of renames in a different order in the remote FSNS, the application of renames in the remote FSNS succeeds and ultimately the remote FSNS will be exactly the same as the local FSNS. Since these sets of renames commute, objects can be propagated between FSNS's in any order and at any time without corrupting the remote FSNS.

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San Leandro, CA, United States of America

Evan W Adams