International Business Machines Corporation

John Christian Fluke

Gary Francis Diamanti

Joel Mark Yarborough

Jarrad Andrew Giles

Daniel Vieira Conrad

Roger Lee Adema

Edward Doutre

Jeffrey Lynn Harmon

Richard Gaines Whitley

Ann Bieghler Shirk

Method for input and output of data with non-standard I/O devices for web and other applications is presented. In one aspect, non-standard input data is received from the non-standard input device at a client, and the non-standard input data is provided as equivalent standard input data to the standard browser running on the client, so that the standard browser can submit the input data to an application running on a server in communication with the client over a network.

Method and system for input and output of data with non-standard I/O devices for web applications

A system and method for developing an application is disclosed. The application is for use with point of sale equipment having a device. The application is capable of utilizing the device when the application is executed on the point of sale equipment. The method and system include providing an emulation module corresponding to the device. The method and system further includes ensuring that the application will utilize the emulation module when the application is executed on the development system. Thus, when the application is executed on the system, the emulation module and the application emulate the interaction between the application and the device that occurs when the application is executed on the point of sale equipment.

Method and system for using emulation objects for developing point of sale

An application (e.g., a computer program) prints data by invoking a print function with a format argument and, optionally, at least one data argument. The format argument and any data arguments are saved in a deferred trace data buffer. The print function returns to the application then, sometime after the print function has returned, the deferred trace data buffer is processed and the format argument and/or any data arguments are printed. By saving the format argument and any data argument(s) to a memory buffer instead of parsing and formatting the arguments in real-time, program efficiency may be improved and the impact of the print function on a software test scenario may be reduced.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for deferred computer program tracing

Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for extending an application written in a first programming language with methods of Java classes, wherein the first programming language cannot directly access the Java classes. Such extension may be provided by-encapsulating differences between the first programming language and Java and/or a memory model of the application and a memory model of Java utilizing at least one subroutine accessible to the application and at least one Java class. Thus, for example, differences in memory models may be overcome by a subroutine which utilizes the memory model of the application being configured to communicate with a Java class which utilizes the memory model the JVM and which can invoke Java methods. The at least one subroutine and the at least one Java class may then be utilized to invoke Java methods from the application.

Methods, systems and computer programs products for extending existing applications with static Java methods

A method and system for replacing substrings in file and directory pathnames with numeric tokens. A name string to be converted is first read; the current working directory and name string are canonicalized to form a pathname containing the substrings. The pathname is parsed and each substring is searched in a string dictionary to locate a corresponding numeric token. The string dictionary that is created associates token values with substrings, so that there is a one-to-one correspondence. The returned list of tokens for the parsed pathname are validated through a lookup process in a directory table. If the parsed pathname is successfully validated, the tokens are then used in subsequent file operations such as create, delete, open, rename and compare files.

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