Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a component manager that manages one or more communication components that implement one or more communication protocols, the component manager including: (a) an encapsulator that generates an object implementation of a pre-established interface for each of the one or communication components, wherein each such object implementation of the interface provides indirect access to its associated communication component and directives to the component manager that must be executed on behalf of the associated communication component, which directives are not communicated to the associated communication component; (b) a directory service object submitter that inserts an object representing a client interface for a communication component into a directory, which object can be retrieved using a name assigned to the communication component; (c) a synchronous transmitter invoker that executes an identified synchronous transmit method in a communication component that implements