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US 7,130,863 B2Granted
Method for enhancing object-oriented programming through extending metadata associated with class-body class-head by adding additional metadata to the database
AssigneeTableCode Software Corporation
InventorSalleh Diab
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for enhancing an object-oriented programming language. The method includes declaring one or more class structures in databases having metadata describing characteristics defining the class structures. The method also includes extending the metadata associated with the class structures by adding any number of additional metadata to the databases.
Claims24
A method for enhancing an object-oriented programming language, the method comprising:
- a) declaring a plurality of classes in databases comprising metadata describing characteristics defining a structure of each class, each class in the plurality comprising:
- i) a class-body comprising a plurality of class-body members, each member comprising a plurality of class-body member metadata in the plurality of metadata, the class-body metadata describing characteristics defining the class-body members, and wherein the plurality of class-body members metadata for a class are stored together, and
- ii) a class-head comprising a plurality of class-head metadata in the plurality of metadata, the class-head metadata describing characteristics defining the class-head;
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- b) extending the metadata associated with the class-head and class-body by adding additional metadata to the databases;
- c) storing the class-body into a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns in at least one database in said databases, each row representing a class-body member definition and each column representing metadata defining a single characteristic of the class-body member;
- d) declaring a plurality of metadata describing characteristics defining an application, each application in a plurality of applications comprising:
- i) an application-body comprising a plurality of class-heads for classes composing the application, wherein the plurality of class-heads of the classes that compose the application are stored together, and wherein each of the class-heads has metadata pointing to its class-body storage,
- ii) an application-head comprising a plurality of application-head metadata in the plurality of metadata, the application-head metadata describing characteristics defining the application;
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- e) declaring a plurality of metadata describing characteristics defining a domain wherein a plurality of software applications related to a domain are organized in a domain software catalog comprising a plurality of metadata describing characteristics defining a domain in a plurality of domains, each domain in the plurality comprising:
- i) a domain software catalog-body comprising a plurality of application-heads that make up the domain software catalog, and wherein the plurality of application-head metadata that make up the domain software catalog are stored together, and wherein each application-head has metadata pointing to said application body storage, and
- ii) a domain software catalog-head comprising a plurality of domain software catalog-head metadata in the plurality of metadata. the domain-head metadata describing characteristics defining the domain, and
- iii) storing the plurality of metadata for the plurality of domain software catalog-heads and wherein each domain-head has metadata pointing to its domain software catalog-body storage.
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