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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1997
Christopher L Brealey, North York, CA;
Jeffrey G Johnston, Scarborough, CA;
Vladimir Klicnik, Oshawa, CA;
David M Lauzon, Etobicoke, CA;
Lok T Loi, East York, CA;
Dirk A Seelemann, II, Thornhill, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A metadata repository for use in an integrated development environment is provided. The metadata repository is layered to define levels of common behaviour useful to different types of application development tools. The most general use tools have access to metadata at the level of simple constructed types; more specialised tools have access to components that contain properties of a target language; highly specialised tools have access to composed partitionable part metadata that can be used for constructing distributed applications.