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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2006
Alan Kin Chung Leung, Fremont, CA (US);
Alan Kin Chung Leung, Fremont, CA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Means are disclosed by which developers of network-analysis applications may develop network-analysis applications that can interface with multiple different versions of network-management applications, wherein each version of network-management application may have a different interface implementation, without having to be familiar with the different interface implementations. In particular embodiments disclosed herein, a network-analysis application requests and receives version information from a version of a network-management application. Based on the received version information, the network-analysis application selects version-dependent interface-implementation software and then integrates the selected version-dependent interface-implementation software with a version-independent interface-façade to produce an interface between the network-analysis application and the version of the network-management application.