International Business Machines Corporation

John D Wiegand

Peter Kenneth Malkin

Lin Luo

Lawrence Scott Rich

Brent Tzion Hailpern

Vladimir Klicnik

Harold Leon Ossher

Zhong Tian

Da Ming Hao

Hang Jun Ye

Jeffrey A McAffer

Dave Thomson

A method and system for maintaining originality-related information about elements in an editable object. It is determined that an element has been edited in the editable object. The originality-related information about the element, including the element's creator, is identified and recorded by embedding the originality-related information in the editable object, storing the originality-related information in an attached file, or storing the originality-related information in association with the element in a repository configured to be shared by different editable objects and further configured to be queried for elements of the different editable objects in association with originality-related information pertaining to the elements of the different editable objects. Whether the element is in compliance with a policy relating to the originality-related information about the element is assessed, and a result of the assessing (indicating compliance or non-compliance of the element with the policy) may be transmitted to a user.

Method and system for maintaining originality-related information about elements in an editable object

Improved techniques are defined for dynamically loading components which have prerequisite relationships more complex than the simple single inheritance chains which are supported with prior art dynamic class loading techniques. Multiple prerequisites are supported in this improved technique, and in preferred embodiments, an arbitrary number of prerequisites may be explicitly specified for a component. Furthermore, techniques are disclosed which enable delaying the loading and initialization of components until such time as a class in the component is actually needed, thereby improving overall efficiency of the system. Optional filtering and export aspects may also be supported to selectively expose classes for use by dependent components and to enable a component to opt out of re-exporting the classes of its prerequisites, respectively.

Independent class loader for dynamic class loading

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