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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1998
Randy Dee Baxter, Rochester, MN (US);
Brent Allen Carlson, Rochester, MN (US);
Albert S. Lee, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In an object oriented computer system, a domain-neutral object is modified with domain-specific run-time extensions to customize the object to a particular domain. A special factory uses the extension identifier to create the domain-neutral object with appropriate extensions in a collection that corresponds to the domain extension. If the special factory is not available, or if a specialized collection associated with the particular extension type has not been previously created, the domain-neutral object with appropriate extensions is created in a default collection. In this manner, an object that is domain-neutral can be customized to a particular domain and created in an appropriate collection for objects of that type.