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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2002
Filed:
May. 24, 1999
Alain Charles Azagury, Nether, IL;
Michael Factor, Haifa, IL;
Avi Teperman, Haifa, IL;
Sara Porat, Ramat Yishay, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A data structure and associated mechanism for implementing object oriented programming language, comprising at least two code blocks for at least one method of an object of a specified class, each of the code blocks containing a different implementation of the at least one method. An access mechanism is provided for accessing a desired code block at run-time on a per object instance basis so as to allow selection of a desired implementation of the at least one method without requiring instantiation of an object of a different class. The selection of which implementation to invoke is integrated into an existing invocation method of the language and is thus transparent to a calling application invoking the method.