International Business Machines Corporation

John Kevin Flanigan

Steve T Kuo

Judith Eleanor Hill

Kevin Michael McBride

Jack Chiu-Chiu Yuan

Gerald Dean Hughes

Theresa Hsing Lai

Haley Hoi Lee Fung

Mark Alan Bach

Robert Shiwen Lai

Andrew Daniel Tollerud

In Ha Chung

H Moncrief Rowe-Anderson

Candace Antonina Garcia

A buffer accessible by an application executing under an application server in a first address space is managed by a database adapter executing in a second address space. A data request from the application executing in said first address space, comprising a buffer locator in the empty state, is received by the database adapter executing in the second address space. A buffer is allocated in the first address space and the address of this buffer is stored in the buffer locator. Data associated with the data request, received from a database subsystem, is copied to the buffer. Control is then transferred back to the application whereby the application utilizes the buffer locator to access the buffer and process the data contained therein. A database adapter automatically managing application buffers across address spaces in accordance with the present invention may be referred to as an 'auto-buffer database adapter'.

Method, computer program product, and system for automatic application buffering

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for generating program specifications for a computer program that accesses datastore persistent objects materialized from a datastore. A 'wizard' or 'task guide' is displayed on a monitor attached to a computer, wherein the wizard comprises a step-by-step procedure for creating the program specifications. Operator input is accepted into the computer in response to the step-by-step procedure and the program specifications are created using the operator input.

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