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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2010
Gerard Marmigere, Drap, FR;
Olivier Oudot, Vallauris, FR;
Joaquin Picon, St. Laurent du Var, FR;
Vincent Tassy, Cagnes sur mer, FR;
Gerard Marmigere, Drap, FR;
Olivier Oudot, Vallauris, FR;
Joaquin Picon, St. Laurent du Var, FR;
Vincent Tassy, Cagnes sur mer, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed a method of handling a given object class in an object-oriented environment, wherein it comprises, in response to the invocation of the given object class during runtime, the steps of: determining if the version associated with the given object class differs from a predefined minimal version and if so: (a) generating a new version of the object class from the previous version of the object class by invoking an interface method migrating an object class from a version to another; (b) extending the new object class by updating pointer links to the previous version of the given object class. The previous version of the object class may be maintained accessible after the object migration.