Pre-assembling drag-and-drop objects before committing a drop object

• US 20070245302A1
• Filed: 04/18/2006
• Published: 10/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Zhang, Jianjun, Xu, Li, Grotjohn, David, Noguchi, Masato
• Granted Patent: US 7,895,567 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/109
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces

Abstract

A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for assembling objects in an IDE is presented. The method includes the steps of creating a pre-drop assembly area in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE); combining multiple component descriptors in the pre-drop assembly area, wherein the multiple component descriptors are interpreted through an extensible language mechanism that contains a plurality of extensible solutions; and upon a determination that combined multiple component descriptors have met a pre-defined condition, committing the combined multiple component descriptors to execution. In one embodiment, only one solution from the plurality of extensible solutions is used to interpret the multiple component descriptors, wherein the one solution is selected according to a user role of a user who is utilizing the IDE. The multiple component descriptors may be combined in the pre-drop assembly area by dragging the multiple component descriptors individually and sequentially to the pre-drop assembly area.

Claims

1. A computer-implementable method comprising:

creating a pre-drop assembly area in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE);

combining multiple component descriptors in the pre-drop assembly area, wherein the multiple component descriptors are interpreted through an extensible language mechanism that contains a plurality of extensible solutions; and

upon a determination that combined multiple component descriptors have met a pre-defined condition, committing the combined multiple component descriptors to execution.

2. The computer-implementable method of claim 1, wherein only one solution from the plurality of extensible solutions is used to interpret the multiple component descriptors.

3. The computer-implementable method of claim 2, wherein the one solution is selected according to a user role of a user who is utilizing the IDE.

4. The computer-implementable method of claim 3, wherein the user role is that of a database manager.

5. The computer-implementable method of claim 1, wherein the multiple component descriptors are combined in the pre-drop assembly area by dragging the multiple component descriptors individually to the pre-drop assembly area.

6. The computer-implementable method of claim 5, wherein the multiple component descriptors are combined in the pre-drop assembly area by dragging the multiple component descriptors sequentially to the pre-drop assembly area.

7. A system comprising:

a processor;

a data bus coupled to the processor;

a memory coupled to the data bus; and

a computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for;

creating a pre-drop assembly area in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE);

combining multiple component descriptors in the pre-drop assembly area, wherein the multiple component descriptors are interpreted through an extensible language mechanism that contains a plurality of extensible solutions; and

upon a determination that combined multiple component descriptors have met a pre-defined condition, committing the combined multiple component descriptors to execution.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein only one solution from the plurality of extensible solutions is used to interpret the multiple component descriptors.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the one solution is selected according to a user role of a user who is utilizing the IDE.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the user role is that of a database manager.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the multiple component descriptors are combined in the pre-drop assembly area by dragging the multiple component descriptors individually to the pre-drop assembly area.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the multiple component descriptors are combined in the pre-drop assembly area by dragging the multiple component descriptors sequentially to the pre-drop assembly area.

13. A computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:

creating a pre-drop assembly area in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE);

combining multiple component descriptors in the pre-drop assembly area, wherein the multiple component descriptors are interpreted through an extensible language mechanism that contains a plurality of extensible solutions; and

upon a determination that combined multiple component descriptors have met a pre-defined condition, committing the combined multiple component descriptors to execution.

14. The computer-usable medium of claim 13, wherein only one solution from the plurality of extensible solutions is used to interpret the multiple component descriptors.

15. The computer-usable medium of claim 14, wherein the one solution is selected according to a user role of a user who is utilizing the IDE.

16. The computer-usable medium of claim 15, wherein the user role is that of a database manager.

17. The computer-usable medium of claim 13, wherein the multiple component descriptors are combined in the pre-drop assembly area by dragging the multiple component descriptors individually to the pre-drop assembly area.

18. The computer-usable medium of claim 17, wherein the multiple component descriptors are combined in the pre-drop assembly area by dragging the multiple component descriptors sequentially to the pre-drop assembly area.

19. The computer-useable medium of claim 13, wherein the computer executable instructions are deployable to a client computer from a server at a remote location.

20. The computer-useable medium of claim 13, wherein the computer executable instructions are provided by a service provider to a customer on an on-demand basis.