Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable and executable instructions are provided for mapping application dependencies. Mapping application dependencies can include defining an application model with a number of application dependencies that enables an application to run and defining a platform model that defines a number of capabilities that are provided by a server. Mapping application dependencies can also include creating a topology model that maps the application model to the platform model at runtime by mapping the number of application dependencies to the number of capabilities while the application remains independent from the server.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for implementing a data server with interface socket connections for managing data for clients interfacing with a network, having program code for creating a data store, where the data store comprises data items generated from network systems in the network; program code for establishing a connection instance between each of the interface socket connections and each of a number of clients desiring access to the data store, where each connection instance corresponds to a different one of the clients; and program code for creating a connection instance object for each connection instance, where each connection instance object has attributes determined by its corresponding client, and each connection instance object provides its corresponding client with access to the data store.

Abstract: A universal event browser operable for viewing and browsing network and system events for a number of different product specific applications is presented. The universal event browser isolates generic graphical user interface functionality from the implementations of the product specific applications by requiring each product specific application to have a product specific interface operable to communicate with the product specific application to retrieve event data from an event repository specific to the product. In addition, each product specific application is associated with a product specification file which contains window display configuration parameters, preferably written in a generic specification language.