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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1997
Stephen Andrew Brodsky, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Gary C. Doney, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dipayan Gangopadhyay, Cupertino, CA (US);
Alexander Gennadievich Glebov, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Morris Golding, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Timothy James Grose, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rebecca Mei-har Lau, San Jose, CA (US);
Subrata Mitra, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajendra Bhagwatisingh Panwar, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen Andrew Brodsky, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Gary C. Doney, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dipayan Gangopadhyay, Cupertino, CA (US);
Alexander Gennadievich Glebov, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Morris Golding, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Timothy James Grose, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rebecca Mei-Har Lau, San Jose, CA (US);
Subrata Mitra, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajendra Bhagwatisingh Panwar, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for modeling an object-oriented system. Within the object model, a reference attribute is specified for a class and a first object is instantiated from the class. Thereafter, a reference-based association can be added to the first object using the reference attribute, wherein the reference-based association identifies a relationship between the first object and a second object.