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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2006
Anshul Dawra, San Jose, CA (US);
Swaminathan Gounder, San Jose, CA (US);
Sherry Guo, Fremont, CA (US);
Paul A. Ostler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anshul Dawra, San Jose, CA (US);
Swaminathan Gounder, San Jose, CA (US);
Sherry Guo, Fremont, CA (US);
Paul A. Ostler, San Francisco, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and a computer program product for managing user-configurable variables are provided. The method and the computer program product provide for defining a plurality of user-configurable variables in a computer program, providing an interface operable to be utilized in the computer program for each of the plurality of user-configurable variables, creating an instance of the interface in the computer program for each of the plurality of user-configurable variables, incorporating code for implementing each of the plurality of user-configurable variables into at least one method in the instance of the interface created for the user-configurable variable, and defining a function in the computer program operable to configure any of the plurality of user-configurable variables according to a provided user specification.