14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: providing, by the processor, a graphical user interface for specifying the class of parameterized information requests, and the graphical user interface comprising: a connector specification interface for specifying the connector object that represents the class of parameterized information requests, a request parameter specification interface for specifying the request parameter for parameterized information requests belonging to the class, and an information source access specification interface that specifies the attributes of the information source; and the processor responding: to the specified connector objector specification from the connector specification interface by producing the connector object, to the request parameter specification interface by producing the request parameter object for the request parameter, and to the information source access object specification interface by producing the information source access object for the attributes of the information source.
1. A method for collaboratively accessing information resources in a computer network by specifying a class of parameterized information requests and making instances of parameterized information requests that belong to the class, the method implemented by a processor having access to a data storage, the method, comprising: accessing, by the processor, objects in the data storage including a connector object in the data storage, the connector object representing the class of parameterized information requests; providing, by the processor, a request parameter object in the data storage that defines a request parameter for parameterized information requests belonging to the class; providing, by the processor, a bind parameter and a bind parameter value; using the request parameter in an instance of a parameterized information request, comprising replacing the bind parameter with the bind value; and providing, by the processor, an information source access object in the data storage that specifies attributes of an information source which will receive the instances of the parameterized information request that belong to the class, the processor responding to an input specifying creation of an instance of the class of parameterized information requests represented by the connector object by using the request parameter defined in the request parameter object and the attributes of the source of information to make the instance of the class.