Abstract: A system and method to create an application and to manipulate application components within the application are described. A user interface area is presented to display an application layout of the application, the application layout including multiple application icons and one or more connections that connect the application icons, each application icon corresponding to an application component of the application. According to one embodiment, insertion of each application icon in the application layout is facilitated and, responsive to the insertion, dynamic linking of the application icons using the one or more connections is facilitated. According to another embodiment, visual modification of the application layout is subsequently facilitated.

Abstract: A method and system for manipulating a data structure are described. In one embodiment, a data structure is accessed, the data structure comprising a number of nodes. A project is accessed, the project comprises one sub-structure, the sub-structure comprising a sub-set the nodes and a relationship defined between the nodes of the sub-set. In addition, a number of query results is created using the sub-structure and a data structure, and a layout and the number of query results are sent to a client.