Dynamic conversion of object-oriented programs to tag-based procedural code

• US 20060200833A1
• Filed: 03/30/2006
• Published: 09/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Burke, Shawn P., Stone, Victor A.
• Granted Patent: US 7,739,665 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/51 Source to source

Abstract

An HTML package of the Windows foundation classes framework allows Java developers to write Java code normally as if they were writing to any user interface framework. The WFC framework converts their coding into standard HTML for display on an Internet Explorer version 4.0 web browser, a selected browser or generic HTML if so indicated by the developer. The HTML generation process is replaceable with third party generators to specifically target selected browsers with differing capabilities. During code writing key value pairs are maintained in arrays and are used to generate styles and attributes, which are further used to generate HTML. Also, several states are used when the code is being written to manage modification and display of HTML directly on a browser. The states and movement between them are transparent to the programmer because the states are handled internally by the library.

Claims

1. A method of managing an object during run time, the method comprising:

maintaining at least three states, each one of the states indicating if the object is available on a browser, wherein the object is created by an object-oriented program and wherein the object comprises a key value pair;

monitoring the state of the object; and

updating the state of the object upon an occurrence of an event that moves the object to a different one of the states.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the states indicates the object is not available on the browser.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the states indicates a peer of the object is available on the browser.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the states indicates a peer of the object is available on the browser and actions must be performed on the peer rather than the object.

5. A computer readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing the actions recited in claim 1.

6. A computer comprising:

a processor;

a memory; and

computer executable instructions executable on the processor from the memory wherein the computer executable instructions comprise

a first component for maintaining at least three states, each one of the states indicating if an object is available on a browser, wherein the object is created by an object-oriented program and wherein the object comprises a key value pair;

a second component for monitoring the state of an object; and

a third component for updating the state of the object upon an occurrence of an event that moves the element to a different state.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein one of the states indicates the object is not available on the browser.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein one of the states indicates a peer of the object is available on the browser.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein one of the states indicates a peer of the object is available on the browser and actions must be performed on the peer rather than the object.