A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for maintaining
application consistency. First, a table of codes and associated text
phrases are provided. Such table of codes is stored on a local storage
medium within an e-commerce computer architecture. Next, the table of
codes is accessed on the local storage medium within the e-commerce
computer architecture. One of the text phrases is subsequently retrieved
by selecting a corresponding one of the codes of the table. During
operation, modification of the text phrases associated with each of the
codes of the table is permitted. A plurality of services are executed,
including retrieving a single one of the text phrases, retrieving all of
the text phrases in response to a single command, updating a single code
and text phrase combination, updating all of the code and text phrase
combinations, naming the table, adding a new code and text phrase
combination, removing one of the code and text phrase combination, and
adding another table.