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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2009
Filed:
May. 24, 2005
Applicants:
Joseph D. Darcy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott Seligman, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Joseph D. Darcy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott Seligman, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods for discovering and accessing annotation processors are provided. The method initiates with identifying an annotation present in a source file and identifying factories available for processing annotations. The method includes determining annotations supported by each of the available factories. Then, one of the available factories is assigned to process the annotation based on the annotation present in the source file being supported by the one of the available factories. A computer readable medium is also provided.