Apparatus and method for implementing an existing object-oriented class in an object management system

A computer program product for implementing one or more existing object-oriented program classes as component objects in an object management system, each class including one or more member functions, each class being defined in a header fie, the computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code thereon, the computer program product comprising:

• program code for building an information list, the information list including a list of the classes and the member functions in each class;
• program code for processing the information list, the processing including parsing the header file for each class;
• program code for generating from the processed information list one or more output files for each component object, each component object implementing the member functions of one class wherein the one or more output files include a source file for each component object, an interface file for each component object, and a header file for each component object;
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• program code for compiling the one or more output files into an object management server.

A method for implementing an existing object-oriented program class as a component object in an object management system, the class being defined in a header file, the method comprising:

• reading the header file, the header file including a list of member functions for the class;
• parsing the header file;
• reading a type file, the type file including computer code for converting between an object-oriented type and an object management type;
• generating a source file for the component object comprising computer code for use in implementing the listed member functions in the object management system based on the conversion code in the type file;
• generating an interface file for use in implementing the component object, the interface file when compiled comprising one or more object management interfaces for the class;
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• generating an object management header file for the component object.

A computer program product for implementing an existing object-oriented program class as a component object in an object management system, the class being defined in a header file, the computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code thereon, the computer program code comprising:

• program code for reading the header file, the header file including a list of member functions for the class;
• program code for parsing the header file;
• program code for reading a type file, the type file including computer code for converting between an object-oriented type and an object management type;
• program code for generating a source file for the component object comprising computer code for use in implementing the listed member functions in the object management system based on the conversion code in the type file;
• program code for generating an interface file for use in implementing the component object, the interface file when compiled comprising one or more object management interfaces;
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• program code for generating an object management header file for the component object.

A computer system for implementing an existing object-oriented program class as a component object in an object management system, the class being defined in a header file, the system comprising:

• means for reading the header file, the header file including a list of member functions for the class;
• means for parsing the header file;
• means for reading a type file, the type file including computer code for converting between an object-oriented type and an object management type;
• means for generating a source file for the component object comprising computer code for use in implementing the listed member functions in the object management system based on the conversion code in the type file;
• means for generating an interface file for use in implementing the component object, the interface file when compiled comprising one or more object management interfaces;
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• means for generating an object management header file for the component object.