Method for generating a software class compatible with two or mo

Details Method for generating a software class compatible with two or mo Method for generating a software class compatible with two or mo

1998-03-19

2000-06-13

Chaki, Kakali

Data processing: software development, installation, and managem

Software program development tool

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717 1, 717 5, 703 27, G06F 945

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060744324

ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a technique for generating a portable software class that includes native methods, i.e., a software class compatible with interpreters conforming to two or more different interfaces. Therefore, the method of the invention allows the development of code that simultaneously supports two or more native method interfaces. The portable software class references a plurality of interface libraries, each of which interfaces to native methods included in the class. While in any given situation all but one of the interface libraries are unused, the overhead of carrying these extra libraries is minimal. The interface libraries are preferably generated from a shared piece of user-generated code. According to another embodiment of the invention, a separate version of the user-generated interface code is generated for each interface library.

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