SHARING DATA STRUCTURE VALUES BETWEEN SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

The present disclosure provides for sharing data structure values between applications via messaging in a computer operating system. A plurality of data structures are defined, each with a given topic name, and a data structure including a collection of defined formats of multiple data elements. Interest by applications in topics is registered. Within an application a collection of multiple data elements having the formats of a defined data structure are identified, and an item is stored in association with the given topic name of the defined data structure, where the item is a collection of data values of the identified data elements. The item is made available to an application registered to the topic for input of the values in a corresponding data structure in the application.