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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 1998
Filed:
May. 05, 1995
Michael A Cleron, Menlo Park, CA (US);
John S Evans, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen Fisher, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Patrick A Holleran, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Richard Ford, Arlington, VA (US);
Richard J Donnelly, San Jose, CA (US);
Timo Bruck, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A connection dialog component of an extensible and replaceable network-oriented component system enables a user to specify address information of a particular resource coupled to a computer network. The network-oriented system includes novel application programming interfaces for the connection dialog component that facilitates integration with an underlying software component architecture. Such a highly-modular cooperating layered-arrangement between the network component system and the component architecture allows the connection dialog component to be replaced, extended or modified by other connection dialog-type components, while ensuring that these latter components 'seamlessly' interact with existing components and component editors of the system.