Client-side stub interpreter

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1997-07-16

2000-12-05

Oberley, Alvin E.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer-to-computer data routing

Least weight routing

709330, G06F 946

Patent

active

061579610

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides an elegant and compact way to provide mechanisms for invocation of objects by client applications and for argument passing between client applications and object implementations, which reduce the memory space required for the client-side stubs, without the client application or the operating system knowing the details of how these mechanisms work. Moreover, these mechanisms function in a distributed computer environment with similar ease and efficiency, where client applications may be on one computer node and object implementations on another. Additionally the invention is independent of the particular C++ compiler used for generation of the stub code. The mechanism used to reduce this memory space comprises a stub generator (called "CONTOCC"), a data base of client-side stub description files and a stub-interpreter which knows how to read these client-side stub description files. CONTOCC reads interface definition language ("IDL") files and generates corresponding C++ files. CONTOCC has the ability to read the IDL data and generate either normal C++ stub files or the special client-side stub description files.

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