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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2000
Applicants:
Mark David Nielsen, Houston, TX (US);
Michael Albert Perks, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Mark David Nielsen, Houston, TX (US);
Michael Albert Perks, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F009/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method for maintaining object associations in an object oriented environment is provided. The apparatus and method make use of value holders to enable a single method to perform the creation and/or update of object associations for all combinations of possible object associations including one to one associations, one to many associations, many to one and many to many associations.