METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-LANGUAGE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

• US 20100306734A1
• Filed: 05/28/2010
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: GUPTA, MANVENDRA
• Granted Patent: US 8,365,154 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/107
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/51 Source to source

Abstract

A method in a software development environment for developing product runtime code having at least two code components written in different runtime languages, the method comprising: providing a programming interface for development of the code components in a single development language: translating developed code components in the development language back to the respective runtime language for execution.

Claims

1. A method in a software development environment for developing product runtime code having at least two code components written in different runtime languages, the method comprising:

providing a programming interface for development of the code components in a single development language; and

translating developed code components in the development language back to the respective runtime language for execution.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the programming interface provides the facilities of the runtime languages in the development language.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the facilities include functions in the runtime languages.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the programming interface is a Java native interface (JNI) and the development language is Java.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the development language is one of the runtime languages.

6. A system for developing product runtime code having at least two code components composed in different runtime languages, the system comprising:

a programming interface that develops the code components in a single development language; and

a translator that translates developed code components in the development language back to the respective runtime language for execution.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the programming interface provides the facilities of the runtime languages in the development language.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the facilities include functions in the runtime languages.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the programming interface is a Java native interface (JNI) and the development language is Java.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the development language is one of the runtime languages.

11-12. -12. (canceled)

13. A computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon computer-readable instructions for implementing a method in a software development environment for developing product runtime code having at least two code components written in different runtime languages, the method comprising:

providing a programming interface for development of the code components in a single development language; and

translating developed code components in the development language back to the respective runtime language for execution.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the programming interface provides the facilities of the runtime languages in the development language.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the facilities include functions in the runtime languages.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the programming interface is a Java native interface (JNI) and the development language is Java.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the development language is one of the runtime languages.