Utility for identifying differences between two Java objects

Details Utility for identifying differences between two Java objects Utility for identifying differences between two Java objects

2003-09-22

2010-10-12

Jalil, Neveen Abel (Department: 2165)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Data integrity

Checking consistency

Reexamination Certificate

active

07814073

ABSTRACT:
A utility for comparing two objects in an object-oriented operating system that also records the differences so that they may be put into human-readable form. In one exemplary embodiment of this invention, two JAVA objects are compared by calling one of the equality methods. If the selected equality method indicates that there is a difference between the two objects, then get . . . ( ) methods of each object are invoked in turn. The results get . . . ( ) methods are compared. If there are differences, the differences are stored in an XML document. The get . . . ( ) method is recursively invoked until the Class of the result has no more get . . . ( ) methods to decompose.

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