3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said object-oriented class library comprises object-oriented task classes for enabling said application to access in an object-oriented manner said services to reference and control a task, said task representing an execution environment for at least one thread of execution associated with said task.
3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said object-oriented class library comprises object-oriented task classes for enabling said application to access in an object-oriented manner said services to reference and control a task, said task representing an execution environment for at least one thread of execution associated with said task. 4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein said task classes comprise a first task object-oriented class encapsulating attributes and operations of an existing task, said first task class including protected methods to enable run-time specific subclasses of said first task class to spawn new tasks.