An image forming apparatus includes an application on a framework that is separated into a core logic portion handling basic processing and a user interface frame portion handling rendering processing and operates; and a controller that executes the application and the framework. The core logic portion is implemented with an application programming interface defined by the framework.

An image forming apparatus includes an application on a framework, that is separated into a core logic portion handling basic processing and a user interface frame portion handling rendering processing and operates; and a controller that executes the application and the framework. The core logic portion is implemented with an application programming interface defined by the framework. The application includes plural applications including a specific application, a core logic portion of the specific application stores user information collectively in a user context, and a core logic portion of another application acquires the user information from the user context.

An image forming apparatus includes an application on a framework that is separated into a core logic portion handling basic processing and a user interface frame portion handling rendering processing and operates; and a controller that executes the application and the framework. The core logic portion is implemented with an application programming interface defined by the framework. The application programming interface includes an after-the-fact notification indicative of that a window displayed by the application is changed to a non-display state as a result that another window is displayed.

An image forming apparatus includes an application on a framework, that is separated into a core logic portion handling basic processing and a user interface frame portion handling rendering processing and operates; and a controller that executes the application and the framework. The core logic portion is implemented with an application programming interface defined by the framework. The application includes plural applications including a specific application, and a core logic portion of the specific application is implemented with a starter programming interface, displays a start screen, and displays a contingency screen in a case where an error occurs in another application.

An information processing system includes: an operation unit that receives an operational input; and an main body unit that operates depending on the operational input, wherein, the operation unit includes a first setting manager that transmits, to the main body unit, first setting information in which setting information of at least one operation unit application which is an application working in the operation unit is integrated and the main body unit includes a second setting manager that outputs second setting information in which setting information of at least one main body unit application which is an application working in the main body unit and the first setting information is integrated.

A device includes a first requester, an acquirer, a transmitter, a storage controller, a second requester, and an executor. The first requester is configured to issue a request for launching a program to a server. The acquirer is configured to acquire identifying information from the server in response to the launching request and identifies the program. The transmitter is configured to transmit device information that identifies the device to the server in response to a transmission request transmitted from the server. The storage controller is configured to store, in association with the identifying information, request information which allows accessing the server and the device information in a storage unit. The second requester is configured to transmit the request information to the server. The executor is configured to execute the program which is launched in the server and associated with the request information.

A system and method of authorizing one or more features of an application is provided. A first application having a first set of features that control one or more functionality of an image processing device and are always available and a second set of features controlling functionality different from that controlled by the first set of features and which require authorization to be operable. A second application executing on the image processing device includes data representing authorization parameters to selectively authorize one or more of the features in the second set of features. In response to detecting, by the second application, that a feature activation service is registered in an operating system of the image processing device by the first application, the second application communicates the authorization parameter data to the first application to authorize and make operable the one or more features of the second set of features.

Provided is an image forming apparatus having a control circuit. The control circuit includes a standard application execution circuit, an apparatus control platform, and a standard application control circuit. The standard application execution circuit has the standard application execution service that executes a standard application. The apparatus control platform includes control service, apparatus control execution service, and an apparatus control management service. The control service controls hardware on an operating system. The apparatus control execution service executes the control service with an interface that is an executing procedure of the control service. The apparatus control management service instructs a call of the control service to the apparatus control execution service. The standard application control circuit manages a state of the standard application and provides an interface for using the hardware resources of the standard application execution service.

An information processing apparatus executes a first program to display a first print setting screen; and executes a second program to display a second print setting screen that is different from the first print setting screen. The executing of the first program includes displaying the first print setting screen; accepting a first changing operation of changing setting information of a function relating to a printing operation, at the displayed first print setting screen; and storing the changed setting information in a shared storage that is accessible by the second program, in response to accepting the first changing operation. The executing of the second program includes acquiring the setting information from the shared storage; and displaying the second print setting screen based on the acquired setting information, such that the first changing operation performed at the first print setting screen is applied to the second print setting screen.

An information processing apparatus includes processors to control a display of a setting information reception screen used to receive setting information, and an execution instruction of information processing, a primary memory to store a primary application used for requesting the processors to execute the information processing based on the setting information and the execution instruction, and a secondary memory to store a secondary application, and a function providing application. When the secondary application receives an instruction, the secondary application transfers the instruction to the function providing application. The function providing application displays the setting information reception screen on a display after receiving a request for displaying the setting information reception screen from the secondary application, and requests the execution of the information processing based on the setting information and the execution instruction to the primary application after receiving a request for executing the information processing from the secondary application.