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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nicholas Raymond Bailey, Southampton, GB;
Robert Harris, Christchurch, GB;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
Abstract
A computer implemented method of defining an object union in an object oriented programming environment, comprising the steps of: selecting a first class from which a first object to be contained in the object union will be instantiated at runtime; selecting a second class from which a second object to be contained in the object union will be instantiated at runtime; selecting a policy function for operating on the first and second classes, at runtime, in order to define which methods supported by the first and second classes will be accessible via the object union at runtime.