Abstract: A method of managing information in a distributed system context including at least one local system and one remote system and using a remote invocation method of the Java language, said language including instructions and enabling creation of objects from classes of belonging having hierarchical relations between them, which method consists of defining in the local system classes replicating the hierarchy of classes of the remote system and including means of access to said classes of the remote system in order to enable use in the local system of instructions specific to classes defined in the remote system.

Abstract: A method of managing keyboard events for navigating a graphical user interface configured in the form of a tree of graphical elements, wherein each graphical element of the tree is associated with a list of keys and wherein each key listed in said lists is associated with an action to be initiated on receipt of a keyboard event corresponding to said key and said graphical element.