International Business Machines Corporation

Laurence Edward England

Howard Justin Glaser

Rebecca Lau Poole

Chenhong Xia

Tsuneo Horiguchi

Alfred William Shannon

Richard Tallman

William Peter Carney

Lawrence C Weber

Andrew J Lang

Curt Lee Cotner

Howard M Hess

Rosanna Mannan

Gary Mazo

Daniel Rodman Hicks

Brian Joseph Owings

Michael Yiupun Kwong

Jeffrey A Grantz

Derek S Gebhard

Steven Ma

Eric Lynn Porter

Robert Milton Smith

James Rush Rhyne, Ii

John Carl DelMonaco

Ralph O Conder

William N Tindall

Teodoro Cipresso

George Lausman

Robert Aaron Wilson

Gary John Hochmuth

Robert D Moyer

Peter D Costigan, Jr

Michael David Connor

Leshek Fiedorowicz

Ramya Karri

James Paul Hildner

Bruce J U Macisaac

Jason Ryder

A first touch gesture is sensed at a subset of a set of six Braille dot touch points at a virtual Braille keyboard. The first touch gesture corresponds to a Braille character. A second touch gesture is sensed that concurrently touches each of the six Braille dot touch points in the set of Braille dot touch points. A contact with a layout of the virtual Braille keyboard with at least one Braille dot touch point is continuously maintained while transitioning from the first touch gesture to the second touch gesture. In response to the second touch gesture, the Braille character is accepted.

Braille data entry using continuous contact virtual keyboard

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for heuristically generated suggestions in static code analysis. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for heuristically suggesting an asset transition in a code analysis tool can include receiving from an end user a request to select an asset of a computer program subject to static code analysis by a code analysis tool and selecting in response and contemporaneously to the request, an asset from amongst many assets during static code analysis of a computer program in a code analysis tool. The method further can include determining a set of assets amongst the many assets historically selected by other users of the code analysis tool during static code analysis subsequent to a selection of the contemporaneously selected asset. Finally, the method can include displaying to the end user a suggestion of a next asset for selection that had been frequently selected by the other users of the code analysis tool during static code analysis of the assets of the computer program subsequent to a selection of the contemporaneously selected asset.

Search suggestions for static code analysis

Functionality is implemented to determine that a first content presented by a first graphical user interface container is related to a second content presented by a second graphical user interface container. The first graphical user interface container and the second graphical user interface container are merged to generate a merged container that presents a merged content. The merged content comprises a first constituent content of the merged container that corresponds to the first content and a second constituent content of the merged container that corresponds to the second content. It is determined that a first action associated with the first constituent content can operate upon the second constituent content. The first action operates on the first constituent content when invoked. Computer program code that implements the first action is reconfigured to operate upon the first and the second constituent content of the merged container.

User interface manipulation for coherent content presentation

Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for using annotations to reuse variable declarations to generate different service functions. A declaration file has variable declarations in a first programming language environment for use by application functions. The declaration file includes a plurality of sets of annotations for a plurality of service functions. Each of the sets of annotations identifies variables in the declaration file to use with one of the service functions. The declaration file is processed to generate one of the service functions. The set of annotations in the declaration file for the service function to generate is determined. The determined set of annotations is processed to determine variables to include with the service function to generate. The determined variables from the declaration file are used to generate the service function.

Using annotations to reuse variable declarations to generate different service functions

A transaction-based application is adapted to process transactions over a network such as an internet or intranet. The transaction-based application is adapted by scanning the source code of the transaction-based application to identify a transaction and information related to the transaction; storing the related information in a database; extracting from the database parameter definitions describing communication of information by the transaction; identifying a parameter usage type for each parameter, said parameter usage type selectable from the parameter usage type set comprising input, output, input/output, and unreferenced; displaying the transaction and a subset of the related and extracted information; allowing a user to select the transaction; and using the identified and extracted information to package the user-selected transaction in a form compatible with a connector building tool.

Method of, system for, and computer program product for providing an e-business connector builder

Remote installation of an application program is provided via a configuration of the application program corresponding to a particular user of the local application. The configuration is defined and stored on a remote server. In response to a user request, a determination is made that the stored configuration corresponds to the requesting user, the user is authenticated, and data is downloaded from the remote server according to the stored configuration. This stored configuration is also encrypted and stored in a manifest file which is also downloaded. Responsive to the user authentication, the manifest file is decrypted, and the application program is constructed pursuant to the configuration decrypted from the manifest file.

Method, system, computer program product, and article of manufacture for installation and configuration of a computer program according to a stored configuration

The illustrative embodiment provides a computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product for managing user roles. A customization application receives a request to modify a user role for an application. In response to the request, the customization application allows a user to modify a set of features associated with the user role to form a set of customized features. A role database stores the set of customized features for the user role. The user roles in the role database are available for use by a plurality of users of the application.

Method and data processing system for managing user roles

In one aspect of the disclosure, a computer program product, system and method for maintaining and recycling software components is disclosed. A first set of usage data for one or more software components is recorded. At least one of the plurality of software components is automatically removed if the first set of usage data for the at least one software component meets usage criteria specified in an expiration policy. Access is then provided to the removed software component through a remote server. A second set of usage data is now recorded for the removed software component. The removed software component is automatically re-instated if the second set of usage data meets usage criteria specified in a re-instatement policy.

System and method of automatically maintaining and recycling software components

Appropriate actions are identified and associated with a selected artifact in a framework providing a customized application program. A metamodel is specified for a capture of relevant information pertaining to the selected artifact. This metamodel is implemented as a plugin which is integratable into the framework and which allows other plugins of the framework to access the relevant information pertaining to the selected artifact. A collection artifact is generated containing an empty instantiation of the metamodel in which an instantiation of the metamodel may be stored, and the collection artifact is sent to a target platform. On the target platform, the collection artifact containing an instance of the selected artifact is instantiated, and each instantiation of the selected artifact instance contains attributes, characteristics, and a replica of the selected artifact's content. The instantiated collection artifact is transmitted back to the framework, and the selected artifact's attributes and characteristics contained in the instantiated collection artifact are analyzed to ascertain appropriate access and actions allowed on the selected artifact.

Trusted access by an extendible framework method

A computer-implemented Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for use in constructing a multi-tier business application for a multiple tier computer network. The IDE is used to create and maintain the multi-tier business application quickly and easily on the multiple tier computer network. The IDE includes a Topological Multi-Tier Business Application Composer and associated Meta-model, wherein the Composer allows the developer to graphically design, develop, maintain, build, test, debug, and deploy the multi-tier business application and the graphical representation of the multi-tier business application is then persistently stored in the Meta-model The IDE also includes an Interactive Agent that monitors the Meta-model for an occurrence of a specific event and then triggers the display of a dialog box or other graphical element in the user interface of the IDE to interact with the developer by displaying context information comprising a list of suggested and recommended actions that advance the creation of the multi-tier business application.

Interactive agent for a topological multi-tier business application composer

Provided is a method, system, and program for performing an impact analysis of program statements in a source code file, wherein each program statement has at least one of an input parameter and output parameter. A selection is received of at least one program statement in the source code file. For each selected program statement, a determination is made of program statements in the source code file having as one input parameter one program artifact that is affected by the selected program statement.

Method, system, and program for performing an impact analysis of program statements in at least one source code file

A configuration of an application program corresponding to a particular user of the local application is defined and stored on a remote server. In response to the user requesting the application program, a session is initiated between the local data processing system and the remote data processing system, and the user is authenticated. Responsive to the user authentication, data is downloaded from the remote server to the local data processing system according to the stored configuration. This stored configuration may be encrypted and stored in a manifest file which is decrypted to produce a decrypted configuration in response to the user authentication, and data may be downloaded from the remote data processing system to the local data processing system according to the decrypted configuration. The application program may be constructed pursuant to the configuration file or the decrypted configuration file.

Method, system, computer program product, and article of manufacture for downloading a remote computer program according to a stored configuration

Trusted access by an extendible framework method, system, article of manufacture, and computer program product

An installation of an application program is updated by use of a stored configuration of the application program corresponding to a particular user of the local application. In response to a user request, a determination is made that the stored configuration corresponds to the requesting user. The stored configuration is checked to determine if any items described in the stored configuration have been updated. If an item has been updated, then the updated item is retrieved, and the application program is built with the updated item. This stored configuration may also be encrypted and stored in a manifest file which may be decrypted to produce a decrypted configuration responsive to a user authentication. The decrypted configuration is checked to determine if any items described in the decrypted configuration have been updated. If an item has been updated, then the updated item is retrieved, and the application program is built with the updated item. Either or both of the manifest file and updated item may be stored on and downloaded from a remote data processing system.

Method, system, computer program product, and article of manufacture for updating a computer program according to a stored configuration

Computer program code which is a candidate for Web enablement or stored procedures is identified. Source code corresponding to computer program code is scanned and parsed to determine static information concerning the computer program code. The static information is stored in a database. Dynamic information concerning the computer program code during an execution of the computer program code is also collected and stored in the database. Responsive to the static information and dynamic information stored in the database, relationships and dependencies are then developed and stored in the database. The database may then be queried to produce a set of potential candidates of computer program code meeting a constraint of the query. If insufficient candidates are returned by the query, then the query constraint may be relaxed, and the query repeated.

Method of, system for, and computer program product for providing automatic identification of a computer program code candidate for web deployment or a stored procedure

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Laurence Edward England