1. A method in a data processing system having an object oriented environment, wherein said object oriented environment includes a plurality of graphic user interface objects and a plurality of application objects, each graphic user object having a unique identifier and a selected attribute and each application object having a preselected response, said method comprising: identifying graphic user interface objects associated with an application object; creating a table specifying relationships between said graphic user interface objects and each graphic user interface object and said application object; and each time said application object is initialized, utilizing said table to specify objects within said application object.