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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2002
Herbert T. Ong, Cupertino, CA (US);
Brian A. Cameron, Moweaqua, IL (US);
Paul J. Rank, San Jose, CA (US);
Akhil K. Arora, San Jose, CA (US);
Mingchi S. Mak, Belmont, CA (US);
Herbert T. Ong, Cupertino, CA (US);
Brian A. Cameron, Moweaqua, IL (US);
Paul J. Rank, San Jose, CA (US);
Akhil K. Arora, San Jose, CA (US);
Mingchi S. Mak, Belmont, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A generic conversion framework that allows developers to develop custom plug-in conversion algorithms and/or merge algorithms (referred to as pluggable modules). In one embodiment, document merging may be split into two processes including a document differencing process and a document merging process. The converter, differencing and merger processes may be implemented as separate pluggable modules, allowing multiple, independent passes of implementations of the differencing process and the merge process. The framework may accept document converter plug-in modules, merger plug-in modules and/or differencing plug-in modules to be added, updated or replaced as needed. In one embodiment, the modules may be plugged into the framework dynamically at runtime. In one embodiment, a plug-in module of one type may be used with two or more different modules of another type.