Hewlett-packard Company

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Humberto A Sanchez, Ii

A method and apparatus for resolving method overloading at runtime that includes accessing an application programming interface file to retrieve methods that belong to the same class as a target method to select an exact method, which is a method where a data type of each of the parameters of the exact method is the same data type of a corresponding parameter of the target method, and if there is no exact method, to find a best method, which is a best method that most closely matches the target method.

Apparatus and method for a runtime method overloading resolver

A method and apparatus for implementing a network protocol to support the transmission of a variable number of application-usable objects as a single network transmittable container object and the re-creation of the application-usable objects therefrom, which includes marshalling application-usable objects into marshalled objects, where each application-usable objects corresponds to a different marshalled object, and each marshalled object comprises frames of data; creating a two-dimensional array to transmit the application-usable objects, where a first dimension represents a given marshalled object by referencing a second dimension array, and a second dimension array comprises frames of data of a given marshalled object; and storing each marshalled object in the two-dimensional array.

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A NETWORK PROTOCOL THAT SUPPORTS THE TRANSMISSION OF A VARIABLE NUMBER OF APPLICATION-USABLE OBJECT OVER A NETWORK AS A SINGLE NETWORK TRANSMITTABLE CONTAINER OBJECT AND THE RE-CREATION OF THOSE APPLICATION-USABLE OBJECT THEREFROM

A system and method for porting a software application from a native object oriented programming system to a target object oriented programming system is presented. The native object oriented programming system includes an application framework layer built on a set of defined native foundation classes and an operating system layer running a native operating system. The target object oriented programming system also includes an application framework layer and an operating system layer. However, the application framework layer is built on a different set of foundation classes and the target operating system is different than the native operating system. A software application that has been implemented to interface with the native object oriented programming system via an application programming interface (API) built on the defined native foundation classes may be ported to run on the target operating system in a functionally equivalent manner as if running on the native object oriented programming system using the method of the invention. The method includes defining a set of target object oriented programming system data types in terms of the native object oriented programming system data types, and then emulating the defined native foundation classes by mapping the native API method invocations to template library calls.

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