Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for sharing resources within an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document that defines a console (i.e., a graphical user interface or GUI) for managing a plurality of application programs and tasks associated therewith. Upon receiving a user request to perform a task associated with an application program managed by a console, resource containers at each scoping level within the XML document are searched for one or more resources required to perform the task. A search is initiated at the scoping level where a task to be performed is defined and proceeds in ascending order towards the root scoping level until the resource is located. When found, a clone of each located resource is generated. The task is then performed using the clone of the resource. The clone of the resource may be discarded after the task has been performed.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable code for a technique with which documents encoded according to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) notation or a derivative thereof can be more efficiently processed by selectively streaming document fragments. This selective streaming technique comprises identifying the static and the changeable portions or fragments of a document. The static fragments are written to a serialized binary format (i.e. a serialized binary stream), such as a disk file, thereby avoiding the re-parsing of this information when reconstituting a Document Object Model (DOM) tree for the document. Volatile fragments, on the other hand, remain in the XML or derivative notation when written to an output file.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for building and displaying dynamic graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that can be updated automatically without requiring code-level modification and recompiling. In response to a request to display a particular GUI on a computer display, an Extensible Markup Language (XML) data group is selected from a plurality of XML data groups and an XML display layout is selected from a plurality of XML display layouts. The selected XML data group includes one or more aggregations of data hierarchically ordered within the selected XML data group. XML data items are hierarchically ordered within each of the aggregations of data. The selected XML display layout contains one or more areas that define respective GUI display spaces within which XML data items from the respective aggregations of data can be displayed.