Novell, Inc.

Kent Sievers

Dale Allen Lowry

Samuel F Fletcher

Craig C Johnson

Preston D Stephenson

Moray B King

Junying Fan

Rod Meiners

Helaman Ferguson

Dave Pratt

An improved system, method and software program is provided for distributed directory enabled applications using an XML API. The improvement provides an event system, a parser, and a bridge-based object model. The event system includes the ability to publish an event, subscribe to the event, and act on the event. The parser enables the XML API to parse XML files by accepting an XML file as an input stream, parsing the input stream, dynamically loading system services referenced in the input stream, and configuring the services. The bridge-based object model utilizes thread safeness, which enables a bridge to use semaphore access control to control thread access, smart pointers, which enable a bridge to automatically manage the memory it requires, and opaque interfaces, which allow a bridge to maintain interface compatibility when implementation changes occur in an interface.

XML-based integrated services event system

An improved system and method is provided for bridging in a distributed directory-enabled application environment using an eXtensible Markup Language (&ldquo;XML&rdquo;) application program interface, where the interface includes a preprocessor using a configuration file. The method includes establishing a set of foundational bridge components and a set of task specific bridge parameters which are defined in the configuration file. The bridge is dynamically generated so that it includes the components and parameters, which enable applications in the distributed environment to communicate. The set of foundational bridge components may include thread safeness, smart pointers, and opaque interfaces.

XML-based integrated services bridging

XML-based integrated services framework

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Orem, UT, United States of America

Kent Sievers