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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
May. 16, 2003
Craig Federighi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dan Willhite, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric Noyau, Mountain View, CA (US);
Craig Federighi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dan Willhite, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric Noyau, Mountain View, CA (US);
Next Software, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention comprises a novel system for managing changes to a graph of data bearing objects. In one embodiment, an object graph manager object referred to as an editing context is used to identify changes made to data bearing enterprise objects and to notify other interested objects when changes occur. As a result, data bearing objects need not themselves contain code necessary for monitoring changes. In another embodiment of the invention, the editing context is used to provide event-based 'undo' capabilities. In another embodiment of the invention, each enterprise object has a primary key that is used to maintain the identification between an enterprise object instance and a corresponding database row. In another embodiment of the invention, multiple levels of editing contexts are used to provide multiple isolated object graphs, each of which allows independent manipulation of the underlying data bearing objects.