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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1997
ChungHen Chow, Austin, TX (US);
Nurcan Coskun, Austin, TX (US);
Kalpesh Jashbhai Patel, Austin, TX (US);
Bruce Allan Tate, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for efficiently handling events occurring in an environment in a data processing system. The data processing system includes multiple environments and objects that may be used in different environments. Each object includes an action that is triggered in response to an event. An event manager object is created for handling events from different environments. Events are registered for the objects. An action is triggered using the event manager object in response to detecting an event occurring in the data processing system, wherein events occurring in an environment are efficiently handled.