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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1999
Charles Salo Gauthier, Stewartville, MN (US);
Kevin Glen Minard, Parker, CO (US);
Jay Daniel Toogood, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The preferred embodiment of the present invention an object oriented wizard creation mechanism provides an environment and set of facilities for creating and modifying wizards. The preferred embodiment wizard creation mechanism provides a WizardWizard mechanism for creating the skeleton of new wizard, a WizardDesigner mechanism for specializing and WizardMetaDataManager mechanism for persisting and retrieving created wizards. The WizardWizard guides the developer through a predetermined series of steps that are required to define a the basic components of a new wizard. The WizardDesigner takes these basic components and guides the developer through a specialization process that further customizes and defines the new wizard. In the preferred embodiment, the WizardWizard and the WizardDesigner create and specialize the target wizard from a component based Wizard framework. The use of the component based Wizard framework with the WizardWizard and WizardDesigner provide a customizable and extensible wizard creation solution to that has utmost functionality and flexibility to the users and developers.