Borland Software Corporation

Borland Software Coporation

Peter Coad

Dietrich Charisius

Alexander Aptus

Jonathan Kern

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention allow a user to animate different versions of a plan or workflow. Each version reflects an instance in an edit history, i.e., reflects the changes made to the plan or workflow. Additionally, methods and systems consistent with the present invention allow a user to view the various plans created from a given workflow over time. Finally, methods and systems consistent with the present invention may be used to review the steps performed during the activation of a plan.

Methods and systems for animating a workflow and a project plan

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an improved software development tool that allows a programmer to develop source code by receiving an indication to form a link, receiving an indication of a first of the plurality of elements, receiving an indication of a second of the plurality of elements, and adding new code to the first element to reflect the link to the second element.

Generating source code for object oriented elements with language neutral transient meta model and correlating display of names, symbols and code

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an improved software development tool that allows a developer to animate the execution of compiled source code as a diagram. The developer may choose to stepwise animate one line of source code at a time. The developer may alternatively indicate at which line of source code the animation should end. In a further embodiment, the software development tool may end the animation when it detects an error.

Methods and systems for animating the interaction of objects in an object oriented program

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an improved software development tool that represents multiple dependencies between a dependent node and a defining node in a project as a single dependency link. Methods and systems consistent with the present invention also identify and display details regarding each dependency in a project upon request by the user.

Methods and systems for identifying dependencies between object-oriented elements

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an improved software development tool that includes a version control system that permits multiple programmers to work simultaneously on a single software project by maintaining a central repository containing a master copy of a software project and by managing versions of the software project that the programmers make through the development process. The improved software development tool enables a programmer to interact with the version control system by interacting with a diagram or diagram element that corresponds to a project, package, diagram, or class, thus facilitating the use of the version control system.

Diagrammatic control of software in a version control system

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an improved software development tool which displays versions of source code with the indications of the edits in a graphical representation, wherein the graphical representation of the source code is not merely a text representation on a user interface. Each version reflects an instance in an edit history, i.e., reflects the changes made to the source code.

Method and system for displaying changes of source code

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an improved software development tool that allows a developer to determine which elements in source code are at most a given number of links away from a selected element. Moreover, the software development tool allows the developer to specify the types of links connecting the elements from the selected element.

Method and system for developing source code and displaying linked elements found within the source code

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an integrated process modeling and project planning tool that allows an enterprise affiliate to improve a workflow that models a process. To improve the workflow, the tool initiates execution of a plan created from the workflow such that an instance of the process is at least partially performed, receives a characteristic about the performance of the plan, and modifies the workflow to reflect the characteristic so that a subsequent plan created from the modified workflow has the received characteristic.

Methods and systems for improving a workflow based on data mined from plans created from the workflow

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an improved software development tool that simplifies a graphical representation of software code for a developer. The software development tool provides the developer with a more coherent, manageable, and abstract graphical view of the project model, and facilitates the developer in graphically debugging and editing the associated software code. The improved software development tool detects a group of related elements in the code, and collapses a portion of the graphical representation of the code associated with the group of related elements.

Method and system for collapsing a graphical representation of related elements

The present invention relates a method and systems for generating, applying and defining patterns for software development. The software development tool receives an indication of a pattern, generates software code reflecting the pattern, and stores identification information for the pattern in a comment associated with the generated software code. The software development tool receives an indication of the software element, determines whether the software element is capable of playing the role, and when it is determined that the software element is capable of playing the role, designates that the software element plays the role in the pattern. The software development tool displays a plurality of software elements to a user, receives an indication of a selected one of the plurality of software elements, receives an indication of a user-defined pattern role that the selected software element plays in a pattern, and stores the plurality of software elements as the pattern.

Method and system for generating, applying, and defining a pattern

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an improved software development tool which allows a developer to simultaneously view a graphical and a textual display of source code. The graphical and textual views are synchronized so that a modification in one view is automatically reflected in the other view. In addition, the software development tool is designed for use with more than one programming language.

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