CROSS-PLATFORM PROGRAM, SYSTEM, AND METHOD HAVING A SYSTEM INDEPENDENT REGISTRY FOR USE ON OPERATING SYSTEMS IRRESPECTIVE OF A REGISTRY EQUIVALENT

The system, method, and program of this invention enables a developer to write a platform independent program that can read, create, modify, delete, and enumerate registry type of information regardless of whether or not a targeted operating system supports a registry or registry equivalent functionality. More specifically, as disclosed herein, there is a global registry object for carrying out, i.e., mapping, registry functions or registry equivalent functions across multiple operating systems. A system independent registry, referred to as a registryDB object, is created for those systems that do not have a registry equivalent. In a preferred embodiment, the registryDB object provides a registry equivalent store for any operating system by using a text file that resembles a Java properties file; although any database or file system could be used to save the registry information.