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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 1996
Filed:
May. 19, 1995
William L Rich, Stone Mountain, GA (US);
Floyd W Shackelford, Beauford, GA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Boundary control of units of work in an object oriented computing environment is provided by a visitor locking system and method and a persistent object locking system and method. The object management table includes a visitor lock flag and a persistent lock flag for each unit of work. The object manager prevents copying of an object from a first unit of work to a second unit of work in response to the visitor lock flag associated with the first unit of work being in a first state, and allows copying of the object from the first unit of work to the second unit of work in response to the visitor lock flag being in a second state. The object manager also locks an object from a first unit of work in response to the persistent lock flag associated therewith being in a first state, and unlocks the object from the first unit of work in response to the persistent lock flag being in a second state. Copying and locking may apply to persistent objects only. Locking may prevent addition of objects to, and deletion of objects from, the unit of work.