In the present invention, a vanity mat is designed to eliminate or minimize clean-ups of excess water collected on a sink counter by generously covering the counter around the sink with a good water-absorbing material. A serialization processor receives each incoming message request from a messaging client, extracts a transaction identifier, searches a state table for the TI, and, if the TI is found active in the state table, stores the request in a serialization queue and makes an entry for that TI with the state \u201cqueued\u201d in the state table. When the plug-in for an entity is loaded, it produces a GUIDed object called a GRB that provides an abstracted representation of the root buss’s configuration and resources.