SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING DIVERSE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

• US 20080216060A1
• Filed: 02/14/2008
• Published: 09/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Purenative Software Corporation
• Original Assignee: Purenative Software Corporation
• Inventors: Vargas, Byron D.
• Granted Patent: US 8,332,828 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/137
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/51 Source to source

Abstract

A computer language translator that translates all or any portion thereof of source code in an original computer language to source code in a target computer language, which may then be translated back to the original language while still maintaining concept, syntax, form of expression, and formatting of the original source code.

Claims

1. A computer language translator including translating software executing on a computer having a storage, said translating software translating a first OOP computer language source code to a second OOP computer language source code and comprising:

an emulated Application Programming Interface library including a table accessible by said translating software on the computer;

said API library having data indicative of types of data manipulations between the first computer language source code and the second computer language source code;

said table including second computer language equivalent functions callable by said second computer language;

said translating software identifying the type of data manipulation the first computer language source code performs and accessing the table of said API library and correlating the type of data manipulation the first computer language source code performs to second computer language source code;

said translating software providing second computer language source code based in part upon identified equivalent functions in the second computer language.

2. The computer language translator according to claim 1 wherein the translator is a bi-directional translator.

3. The computer language translator according to claim 2 wherein said translating software analyzes the second computer language source code to identify the type of data manipulation that the second computer language source code performs, accessing said library and correlating the type of data manipulation the second computer language source code performs to first computer language source code.

4. The computer language translator according to claim 3 wherein the correlation from the second computer language to the first computer language is independent of the context in which the second computer language source code is used, said translating software generating re-translated first computer language source code that emulates the type of data manipulation the second computer language source code performs.

5. The computer language translator according to claim 2 wherein the re-translated first computer language source code is substantially identical to the first computer language source code.

6. The computer language translator according to claim 1 wherein said translating software performs a name adjustment when an incompatibility between the first computer language source code and the second computer language source code occurs.

7. The computer language translator according to claim 1 wherein the first computer language source code comprises a class.

8. The computer language translator according to claim 7 wherein the class consists of units selected from the group consisting of:

methods, data fields, inner-classes, and combination thereof.

9. The computer language translator according to claim 1 wherein the first computer language source code comprises an identifier.

10. The computer language translator according to claim 9 wherein said software performs a name adjustment when an incompatibility between the identifier and the second computer language source code occurs.

11. The computer language translator according to claim 1 wherein said software generates a tagged element inserted in the second computer language source code indicative of a type of data manipulation the first computer language source code performs.

12. The computer language translator according to claim 11 wherein the tagged element comprises information selected from the group consisting of:

formatting, translation data, and first computer language source code.

13. The computer language translator according to claim 1 wherein the first computer language is Java and the second computer language is C++ or C#.

14. The computer language translator according to claim 1 wherein the first computer language is C# and the second computer language is C++.

15. The computer language translator according to claim 1 wherein the first or the second computer language is a scripting language.

16. The computer language translator according to claim 15 wherein the scripting language is selected from the group consisting of JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl and PHP.

17. The computer language translator according to claim 1 further comprising a parser for parsing the first computer language source code into parsed elements.

18. A method for translating a first OOP computer language source code to a second OOP computer language source code comprising the steps of:

providing a computer with a storage, the computer having translation software executing thereon;

providing an emulated Application Programming Interface library having data indicative of types of data manipulations between the first computer language source code and the second computer language source code;

providing a table associated with the API library including second computer language equivalent functions callable by said second computer language;

identifying the type of data manipulation the first computer language source code performs;

accessing the table and correlating the type of data manipulation the first computer language source code performs to second computer language source code; and

generating second computer language source code based in part upon identified equivalent functions in the second computer language.

19. The method for translating according to claim 18 further comprising the steps of:

identifying the type of data manipulation the second computer language source code performs;

accessing the table and correlating the type of data manipulation the second computer language source code performs to first computer language source code; and

generating first computer language source code based in part upon identified equivalent functions in the first computer language.

manipulation the second computer language source code performs.

20. The method for translating according to claim 19 wherein the re-translated first computer language source code is substantially identical to the first computer language source code.

21. The method for translating according to claim 18 further comprising the step of performing a name adjustment when an incompatibility between the first computer language source code and the second computer language source code occurs.

22. The method for translating according to claim 18 further comprising the step generating and inserting a tagged element in the second computer language source code indicative of a type of data manipulation the first computer language source code performs.

23. The method for translating according to claim 19 wherein the first computer language is Java and the second computer language is C++ or C#.

24. The method for translating according to claim 19 wherein the first computer language is C# and the second computer language is C++.

25. The method for translating according to claim 19 wherein the first or the second computer language is a scripting language.

26. The method for translating according to claim 25 wherein the scripting language is selected from the group consisting of JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl and PHP.

27. The method for translating according to claim 19 further comprising the step of parsing the first computer language source code into parsed elements.