International Business Machines Corporation

Thomas E Conrad

Garry L Haas

Howard Justin Glaser

Constance Jane Nelin

James Louis Keesey

Jean C Ho

Gerold Johann Wilmot

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a programming development environment that supports the development of Internet and Intranet applications. In particular, an extender user interface for creating a relational database extender is provided. A window is displayed on the monitor. The window illustrates a relational database extender, which comprises multiple objects.

Extender user interface

An interactive graphical display of object relationships and instances is implemented by means of a table driven process. The user can select one or more object occurrences and then select an action to be performed on the selected object occurrences using a dynamic menu of actions. Changes are made to the tables without modifying the processes. The process can be used in managing a distributed database system to provide a user with increasingly detailed levels of information about object types and occurrences in the database systems.

Program storage device and computer program product for interactively

Computerized system and process for interactively managing a distributed

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Morgan Hill, CA, United States of America

Thomas E Conrad