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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1998
Loki Der Quaeler-Bock, San Francisco, CA (US);
Raymond J Ryan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Keith Bernstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for programming applications with GUIs in accordance that do not require time-consuming and error-prone custom coding of GUI/internal variable synchronization routines, in general, and GUI/BO synchronization routines, in particular. An embodiment includes a plurality of classes for associating and synchronizing GUI components and BO attributes. The classes include: an inspector class, a selection class and a plurality of editor classes. The inspector class includes methods and data structures that enable a client application to bind a set of GUI components to the attributes of at least one business object. As a first step in associating and synchronizing GUI components and BO attributes a client application constructs an instance of the inspector class. The client application then passes the inspector instance a selection class instance that includes the business object(s) whose properties are to be synchronized with the GUI components. The client application also passes the inspector instance a mapping between BO attributes and GUI components. The present invention can be implemented in the Java.TM. programming language or any other object-oriented language. When the BOs are implemented as JavaBeans.TM. Objects, their properties are discovered using the JavaBeans.TM. property of introspection.