Component based design time architecture
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1. An application development architecture, comprising:
- at least one component;
at least one designer associated with the at least one component; and
a design tool that populates itself with the at least one designer associated with the at least one component.
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Abstract
The invention includes an architecture in which components associate their design time functionality independent of a design tool. The design time functionality includes code generators, compilers, parsers and editors. The architecture includes interfaces for components and designers to communicate. The architecture includes attributes in metadata that describe the functionality associated with the instance of a component.
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1. An application development architecture, comprising:
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at least one component;
at least one designer associated with the at least one component; and
a design tool that populates itself with the at least one designer associated with the at least one component. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An application development architecture, comprising:
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a design tool that populates itself with a designer associated with a component; and
a designer host interface that creates an instance of the component and creates an instance of the designer associated with the component. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. In a component based environment, a method for developing an application, comprising:
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loading a designer host interface;
obtaining a request from a developer for a component;
loading the component;
identifying a designer associated with the component;
loading a designer associated with the component;
initializing the designer;
manipulating information received by the component; and
invoking the designer host interface to coordinate utility tasks requested by at least one of the component and the designer. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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