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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2002
James Edward Carey, Rochester, MN (US);
Marybeth Gurski, Rochester, MN (US);
Michael Terry Payne, Rochester, MN (US);
James Edward Carey, Rochester, MN (US);
Marybeth Gurski, Rochester, MN (US);
Michael Terry Payne, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for accessing a home object in an object oriented programming (OOP) environment using a locator object capable of locating a home object for a class or a subclass. The locator object supports inheritance for itself, and is capable of locating a home for either an OOP superclass or subclass. By providing a mechanism for locating the home for either the superclass or subclass, preferably in a static manner, client code may be reused with subclasses without having to change code.