Method and apparatus for enabling agile development of services in cloud computing and traditional environments

• US 10,635,408 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2017
• Issued: 04/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Abrahams, Faried, Subramanian, Vijayaganesh, Ramesh, Sandeep Patil, Sivakumar, Gandhi, Thomas, Lennox Epstein
• Primary Examiner(s): Bodden, Evral E
• Application Number:
  US15/465,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20170192755A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,134 Days
• Field of Search: 717110
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/24 Object-oriented
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/315 Object-oriented languages
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/33 Intelligent editors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming

Abstract

Prepending a name object or setting a type of a software object to a name and prepending a value object to the software object provides inheritance of a name value pattern by the software object to establish particular types or classes of attributes of the software object without modification of the software object itself that is thus strongly typed and accessible by type.

Claims

1. A processor configured for processing a software library storage and retrieval system for a computer memory comprising a software object (SO) having a full desired functionality, the SO comprising, in combination:

a first pre-existing or specially developed software object (FO) having a functionality which is less than the full desired functionality, the FO having an attribute with which a type attribute specifying a name is associated or a name object prepended to the FO setting a type of attribute of the FO by inheritance as a modification of the FO corresponding to the full desired functionality; and

a value object (VO) prepended to the FO, wherein the name specified by the type attribute or the name object and a value of the VO form a name value pattern that is inherited by the FO to function as an additional attribute of the FO to provide additional functionality corresponding to a portion of said full desired functionality not provided by the FO without adding an additional attribute to the FO;

wherein;

the SO encapsulates properties of a hierarchically lower object; and

the SO has the full desired functionality and the FO has the functionality that is less than the full desired functionality.

2. The processor as recited in claim 1 wherein additional details of attributes of the SO are specified by comma separated values.

3. The processor as recited in claim 1 wherein the SO further includes a further name object and a further value object which are associated with another attribute of the FO, wherein said another attribute is different from an attribute with which said name object and said value object are associated.

4. The processor as recited in claim 1, wherein the software library storage and retrieval system is configured for editing a generic name object.

5. The processor as recited in claim 1, wherein the software library storage and retrieval system is configured for providing additional details of attributes through comma separated values.

6. The processor as recited in claim 1, wherein the software library storage and retrieval system is configured for editing a type name of an attribute.

7. The processor as recited in claim 1, wherein the software library storage and retrieval system is configured for editing a generic value object.

8. The processor as recited in claim 1, wherein the software library storage and retrieval system is configured for editing attributes of the software object.

9. The processor as recited in claim 1, wherein the software library storage and retrieval system is configured for storing said software object with the name object and value object prepended to the SO as a portion of a software program.

10. The processor as recited in claim 1, wherein the software library storage and retrieval system is configured for:

prepending another name object to the SO, wherein the another name object is of the same type or class as the name object, and prepending another value object to the SO, wherein the another value object is of a same type or class as the value object whereby another name value pattern is inherited by the SO.

11. The processor as recited in claim 10, wherein the another name object and the another value object are associated with an attribute of the SO that is different from an attribute with which the name object and the value object are associated.