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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1997
Ajay Arvind Apte, Austin, TX (US);
Ping Chen, Austin, TX (US);
John Conrad Sanchez, Pflugerville, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A scripting environment component provides predefined interfaces for scripting registered objects. A scripting component implemented for a user-selected scripting language, which implements all methods and interfaces specific to the selected scripting language, connects a scripting engine for the selected language to the scripting environment and the objects registered with the scripting environment. Scripting components for specific scripting languages are subclassed from a generic scripting component. To create and edit scripts connecting objects registered with the scripting environment, the appropriate scripting component is selected to provide connections between the scripting engine for the selected scripting language and the interfaces defined by the scripting environment. Runtime-only information for generated scripts may be saved to a separate storage space. At runtime, the scripts may call other scripts, possibly written in a different language, and respond to events fired by a registered object. Scripted objects may be nested, with different scripts connecting objects at different levels of nesting.