6. A method in a computer system, comprising the steps of: a) accessing a management service for managing computer networks, the management service having a plurality of objects each created from a class, each of said objects having at least one associated attribute with an attribute syntax, a plurality of said attributes having an associated value; b) selecting a target object in the management service; c) generically displaying as a tree structure, independent of the attributes in the class from which the target object was created, at least a portion of the attributes for the target object; d) selecting a target attribute from the tree structure; e) providing a generic editor corresponding to the syntax of the target attribute of the target object, said generic editor being adapted to receive inputs from a human user; f) receiving inputs by the generic editor for modifying the values associated with the target attribute; and g) modifying the management service to include one or more of the modifications to the values received by the generic editor.
7. A method as recited in claim 6, wherein the step of generically displaying additionally comprises the step of displaying in the tree structure values corresponding to one or more of the displayed attributes.