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External resource files for application development and management

  • US 7,017,143 B1
  • Filed: 12/01/1999
  • Issued: 03/21/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer software application development system comprising:

  • a first group of system users responsible for modifying one or more external resource files written in a markup language, at least one of the external resource files comprising at least one extensible markup language tag associated with at least one of a plurality of platform namespaces;

    a second group of system users responsible for writing computer software code;

    a graphical control locator for locating the one or more external resource files;

    a parser for identifying a requested parameter stored in the one or more external resource files; and

    a runtime tree built from the one or more external resource files in response to a resource request that references at least one of a plurality of graphical controls;

    wherein at least some of the plurality of graphical controls have a parent-child relationship with others of the plurality of graphical controls; and

    wherein a reference to the runtime tree is sent to each graphical control in a parent-child relationship with the at least one of the plurality of graphical controls referenced by the resource request.

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