摘要 |
<p>An appliance (12, 12', 1000, 1006, 1102, 2002) configured to perform a physical cycle of operation on an article including at least two software components (10, 16B, 30, 48, 50, 52, 59, 72, 80, 84, 86) collaborating with each other by a method of access or exposure to each other, characterized by an embedded virtual router (70) that encapsulates the method. The collaboration is uniform and identical whether the collaboration is over a network (14, 200, 202, 402, 602, 606, 608, 612, 1030, 1050, 1052, 1164, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2100, 2102) or sharing a runtime environment.</p> |