METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM COMPRISING SOFTWARE FOR DISPLAYING PROPERTIES OF AN OBJECT OF SERVER SOFTWARE IN A CLIENT COMPUTER

摘要

The invention relates to a method, a client computer, a server computer and a storage medium comprising corresponding software for the display of properties of an object of server software in a client computer. The invention especially relates to the treatment of tabular object list windows in network management systems. According to the invention, the inventive method for displaying properties of objects of server software on a display unit of a client computer comprises the following steps: request data for the properties of an object of the server software is sent (51, 55) from the client computer to the server computer; the requested properties are determined (32, 36) in the server computer; the determined properties are sent (52, 56) from the server computer to the client computer; and the sent properties are displayed (33, 37) on the display unit of the client computer. The step for determining (32, 36) the properties uses a pre-determined name convention which is used for methods relating to objects of the server software, in order to identify the methods defined for the object by the method name, and determines the properties by means of the identified methods.