Architecture and definition of an extensible, object-oriented graphical user interface framework for managing and administering heterogenous digital library datastores

摘要

An extensible, object-oriented graphical user interface (GUI) framework that provides a consistent “look and feel” for an application that interfaces to the GUI framework and that manages and administers a plurality of datastores. The GUI framework is extensible by means of a “plug-in” facility through which support for additional datastores can be added, so that a collection of heterogeneous datastores can be managed using one consistent user interface.