Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for representing connections in a computer system are provided. A component object representing a component in the computer system and a connection requesting object representing a connection to the component are instantiated. A type of resource for the component object is requested, wherein the connection requesting object transmits the request to a connection providing object, the connection object providing two or more resources. If one of the provided two or more resources is of a same type of resource as the requested type of resource and if the respective one of the provided two or more resources is available for consumption, the respective one of the two or more resources is consumed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for validating a user configuration of a computer system are provided. The method generally includes receiving, through a user interface of a configuration system, a user configuration selection, wherein the user configuration selection modifies the configuration of the computer system. Based on the user configuration selection, one or more contexts in a collection of contexts may be modified. The collection of contexts may be applied to part information for a part of the computer system to determine applicable part information for the modified configuration.