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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2008
Juergen Baumann, Ammerbuch, DE;
Friedrich Beichter, Altbach, DE;
Jochen Hoffman, Boeblingen, DE;
Thomas Pohl, Bemptlingen, DE;
Juergen Baumann, Ammerbuch, DE;
Friedrich Beichter, Altbach, DE;
Jochen Hoffman, Boeblingen, DE;
Thomas Pohl, Bemptlingen, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A data management method includes accessing data objects in an application written in C/C++ for change-logging and multi-step redo/undo, wherein the data objects are organized in a binary format and are devoid of self-describing information, and wherein the accessing the data objects is structured in a plurality of layers, the plurality of layers including a semantic layer, a change log layer, and a repository layer, dynamically analyzing the data objects to recognize all changes made by any of a plurality of users for all data types used by the application, the dynamically analyzing the data including using semantic analysis to track changes and identifying any changes in any of the data objects, and using generated wrapper classes to convert between C/C++ data structures and generic data format, wherein the wrapper classes are generated from developer provided annotations with C/C++ data structure declarations.