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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 12, 1997
Curt L. Cotner, Gilroy, CA (US);
Wendy Lynne Koontz, Denver, CO (US);
Gerald H. Roth, San Jose, CA (US);
Frederick Thomas Sharp, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Shu-Huar Joseph Yeh, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a programming development environment that supports the development of portable server routines. More specifically, the present invention discloses a method for storing and retrieving server routines within the database independent of any file I/O system. Also, the present invention discloses a debugging environment that allows debugging of server routines in a multi-tier environment, wherein the source code being debugged runs on the development machine.