Graphical user interface for Web enabled applications

A method for integrating and managing one or more client application programs for enabling a user to interact with one or more web enabled services to which the user has subscribed, the method comprising:

• receiving a web page having a backplane object from a remote server;
• downloading a client application program associated with the web enabled services;
• launching the backplane object;
• presenting to the user the client application programs associated with the web enabled services to which the user has subscribed and which the user may select;
• and
• creating the client application program upon the user's request,
• whereby the backplane object and the client application programs interoperate with one another and communicate with the remote server to provide an integrated customer interface to a plurality of communications network management services subscribed by the user.

A system for creating integrated client applications for enabling a user to interact with one or more web enabled services to which the user has subscribed, the system comprising:

• an application backplane class for managing a plurality of client application programs;
• an application interface class for implementing the client application program associated with the web enabled service, the application interface class further including a messaging device for enabling communications among the plurality of client application programs;
• GUI class extensions for enabling the client application programs to provide common look-and-feel desktop window management features;
• and
• a client communications interface for providing a single interface from which the client application programs may send messages and requests to one or more back-end services,
• whereby a shared library of common objects is provided as a framework in which a family of Internet applications can be created and managed from an integrated system.