International Business Machines Corporation

William Nicholas John Tindall

Alan Roeder Elderon

Michael Thomas Wheatley

William Augustus Carter

Grant Sutherland

Henry Y Saade

Timothy David Magee

Mark David Nicholas

Timothy Edward Weinmann

Jeffrey Ramesh Urs

Shyh-Mei Fang Ho

Tony Y Tsai

James Rush Rhyne, Ii

John Brian Pickering

Shahaf Abileah

Andrew McColl Krasun

A parser is generated for parsing a marked up document. A template of a sample marked up document chosen by a user is extracted. The template comprises elements of the structural markup of the sample document with their data contents removed. The parser for parsing a marked up document is generated. The parser is generated in the form of code based on the extracted template in such a manner that the parser is adapted to extract any elements and associated data content of the marked up document to be parsed corresponding to the elements of the extracted template.

Generating a parser and parsing a document

A method of and a system for processing an enterpise an application request on an end user application and an application server. This is accomplished by initiating the application request on the end user application in a first language (such as a markup language) with a first application program (such as a Web browser), and transmitting the application request to the server and converting the application from the first language of the first end user application to a language running on the application server, processing the application request on the application server, and transmitting the response from the application server back to the end user application, and converting the response from the language running on the application server to the language of the end user application. The end user application and the application server have at least one connector between them, and the steps of (i) converting the application request from the language of the end user application (as a source language) to the language running on the application server (as a target language), and (ii) converting the response to the application request from the language running on the application server (as a source language) to the language of the end user application (as a target language), each include the steps of invoking connector metamodels of the respective source and target languages, populating the connector metamodels with metamodel data of each of the respective source and target languages, and converting the source language to the target language.

Type descriptor metamodel

COBOL metamodel

A method, apparatus, and article for solving the year 2000 problem involves limited modifications in the data definition portions of the source code and compiler support for processing the modified source code. Fields in the source code that contain a year or date values are identified and, for each such field, the user selects an appropriate technique (for example, expansion, compression or windowing). The user modifies the data definition for each identified field, by adding new attributes to request the selected technique. The user then compiles the program and resolves any ambiguous references to the variables whose definitions were modified. This procedure is applied, module by module, and each processed module is merged into production, after testing, by using a compiler option to disable the use of the new attributes. A compiler option provides for the generation of debugger hooks for each statement that has been affected by modified declarations, which may be used with a suitably equipped debugger or other run-time analysis tool.

Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted windowing solution to the year 2000 problem for computer programs

Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted solution to the year 2000 problem with debugging option for computer programs

Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted compression solution to the year 2000 problem for computer programs

Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted solution to the year 2000 problem with flagging option for computer programs

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William Nicholas John Tindall