Object oriented system and method for generating target language code

A system for converting an object oriented program into code for a target language, comprising:

• a set of code templates corresponding to each available target language, each of the code templates comprising code fragments in the corresponding target language and object oriented code and each of the code templates corresponding to a different construct in the corresponding target language;
• an object oriented execution environment capable of executing the object oriented code;
• means for recursively generating each object in the object oriented program as necessary to find all underlying objects which correspond to the code templates for the target language;
• mapping means for mapping each of the underlying objects to the corresponding code template for the target language;
• and
• means for parsing the mapped code templates to generate code in the target language.

A method for converting an object oriented program into a target language, comprising the steps of:

• recursively generating objects from the object oriented program, as necessary, to identify all base objects which have a corresponding source code template for the target language;
• mapping each of the base objects to the corresponding source code template;
• and
• parsing the mapped source code templates to generate source code in the target language.

Computer readable code for converting object oriented code into target language code, comprising:

• at least one set of source code templates;
• first subprocesses for recursively generating objects from the object oriented code, as necessary, to identify all base objects which have a corresponding source code template in a target set of source code templates;
• second subprocesses for mapping each of the base objects to the corresponding source code template;
• and
• third subprocesses for parsing the mapped source code templates to generate source code.