Name Services

A core shared service that provides a programming interface for its clients to store and access transient or persistent systems and state information in the global name space. It exports APIs to its clients and defines SPIs for name service providers.

Registry entry information, consisting of three descriptors: class identifier, attribute name, and attribute value.

A point or node in a client's registry name space tree established by a registry service provider and implemented as a registry subtree.

A hierarchical (tree) structure of nodes, with one distinguished node called the root. Each node is labeled by a distinct, nonempty string of characters called a component name. Nodes are directories or leaves (for example, terminal nodes that represent an entity identified by a mach port: file, device, root of a file set, and user name). Each node may have a list of attributes and access control. A name space is assigned naming rules during creation.

Rules that define how to create component names for a name space (including restricted characters, case sensitivity) and how to do path resolution for a name space.

NLF is a group of components that support functions that relate to the national language and country unique requirements. An input method and font data are components of NLF.

The modification or conversion of a United States English product to conform to the requirements of another language or country. This can include the enabling or retrofitting of a product and the translation of nomenclature, MRI, or documentation of a product.

National language support.

Session-related (asynchronous) status messages generated by the recognition engine and sent to subscribing applications.