1. A computing system having an operating environment with at least two operational modes for interfacing a user application to a system component, the system comprising: a management module operating in a first operational mode that, in response to an instruction from an external application operating in the first operational mode, issues a first interface message to the system component; and a translation module operating in a second operational mode, communicatively coupled to the system component, and further communicatively coupled to the management module, that receives the first interface message from the management module, translates information in the first interface message to create a second interface message, and issues the second interface message to the system component.