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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1998
Geoffrey Alexander Cohen, Durham, NC (US);
James P Gray, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
David Louis Kaminsky, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Manoj V Kasichainula, Raleigh, NC (US);
Richard Adam King, Cary, NC (US);
Zhiyong Li, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Phillip Allan Stone, Tukwila, WA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for automatically generating client/server applications from an application written to execute on a single processing system. The application has program classes and programmed methods associated with the objects. Each program class in the application is identified and the relationships between programmed methods in the classes is determined. The relationships between the programmed methods in the identified classes are then weighted based on the activity of the relationship. Similarly, each identified class in the application is also weighted based on the computing resources required by the identified class. The identified classes are then partitioned into client classes and server classes based on the weighted relationships between the programmed methods in the classes, the weight associated with each class and a computing topology associated with a target client processing system. The resulting client and server partition may then be used for code generation and distribution based on the capabilities of a requesting computer system.