METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A GRAPHICAL WORKBENCH ENVIRONMENT WITH INTELLIGENT PLUG-INS

摘要

An apparatus and a method for analysis of point-gathered data. The apparatus and method provide a platform that includes a workbench providing a graphical working environment for a user to view and perform operations on point-gathered data and to interact with the platform, one or more plug-ins that operate on the point-gathered data, including plug-ins that receive inputs from a user through workbench and issue commands as messages and that actively save their state by passing the state as a message, and a message framework that receives all messages from producer plug-ins and passes the messages to an intended consumer. The platform actively saves the workbench state and plug-in states as messages passed to the message framework.