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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2003
Debra Lyn Orton, San Jose, CA (US);
Eugenie Lee Bolton, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Daniel F. Chernikoff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Brook Goldsmith, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Christopher P. Moeller, Los Altos, CA (US);
Debra Lyn Orton, San Jose, CA (US);
Eugenie Lee Bolton, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Daniel F. Chernikoff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Brook Goldsmith, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Christopher P. Moeller, Los Altos, CA (US);
Object Technology Licensing Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for enabling an object-oriented application to access in an object-oriented manner a procedural operating system having a native procedural interface is disclosed. The apparatus includes a computer and a memory component in the computer. A code library is stored in the memory component. The code library includes computer program logic implementing an object-oriented class library. The object-oriented class library comprises related object-oriented classes for enabling the application to access in an object-oriented manner services provided by the operating system. The object-oriented classes include methods for accessing the operating system services using procedural function calls compatible with the native procedural interface of the operating system. The computer processes object-oriented statements contained in the application and defined by the class library by executing methods from the class library corresponding to the object-oriented statements.