Information handling system, method, and article of manufacture including persistent, distributed object name services including shared properties

摘要

An information handling system includes one or more work stations, each work station including one or more processing units, a memory system, and one or more I/O controllers all connected to a system bus, the I/O controllers controlling various input/output devices such as a keyboard, a mouse, a display device, communications adapters and the like, an operating system control means employing object oriented technology, and means for providing a persistent, distributed object name service. An object class is modeled as a set of relationships. One or more files are constructed which exist in the file system, each of the files capturing the semantics of the naming context objects.