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A method, system, and computer program product for emulating a sequence of events resulting from user interaction with an applet in which the storing and retrieval of queued event objects is facilitated through the use of an index to a component vector. When an applet event recorder is invoked and the applet selected, an automator initializes the applet and generates a component vector that includes a reference to each component of the applet. Events are then detected by the applet event recorder via automator listeners. The automator then generates queued event objects and stores the queued event objects in an automator queue. The generation of queued event objects in one embodiment includes the generation of a component index value that points to the component of component vector that references the applet component that was responsible for generating the corresponding user interaction event. When it is later desirable to emulate the recorded portions of the original user interaction sequence, the automator generates constructed objects from the queued event objects. If the emulation of the original sequence occurs when the instance of applet present during the original user interaction sequence is no longer present, the component vector is generated for a second time. Each time the component vector is generated, the ordering of the components in the component vector is identical. In this manner, the component index field always points to the corrector vector component. The constructed objects are then played back to emulate the recorded portion of the original user interaction sequence by posting the constructed objects to system queue where they are dispatched to applet listeners.

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