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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1998
Mark A Bach, San Jose, CA (US);
Kyle Jeffrey Charlet, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Shyh-Mei Fang Ho, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kevin M McBride, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Huey Moncrief Rowe-Anderson, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas Beavers Sander, Saratoga, CA (US);
Thomas Arthur Vogel, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for generating class specifications for an object-oriented application that accesses a hierarchical database. The class specifications are generated using a command line interface of a class definition tool. A database description and a record layout associated with the hierarchical database are captured and associated to define a specification for the database. Class definitions are then generated from the database specification, wherein the class definitions are instantiated as objects in the objects framework that encapsulate data retrieved from the database.