METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING LAYERED PROPERTY DEFINITION IN TRADITIONAL AND CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20140215430A1
• Filed: 01/30/2013
• Published: 07/31/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Abrahams, Faried, Rakshit, Sarbajit Kumar, Sivakumar, Gandhi, Ramesh, Sandeep Patil, Thomas, Lennox Epstein
• Granted Patent: US 9,268,533 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/24 Object-oriented
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4488 Object-oriented

Abstract

In developing custom programming, particularly for clients or tenants of a cloud computing environment, following pointers from a candidate, existing object of interest vertically to obtain inherited attributes and horizontally to obtain encapsulated properties and presenting such attributes and properties to a software developer for editing and inclusion in custom object-oriented programming facilitates and expedites accommodation of requirements of model based design for potential or existing tenants or clients of a cloud computing environment.

Claims

1. Apparatus for facilitating software development in object oriented program design from application of model based design to cloud processing requirements, said apparatus comprising:

an arrangement to select an object to answer a task developed by said model based design,

a parser to vertically follow pointers from said selected objects to a boundary of said object to collect attributes inherited by said object,

an arrangement to follow pointers horizontally from said object to collect properties of said object, and

an editor to edit said attributes and properties of said object.

2. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, further including

a library of objects for performing respective functions.

3. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, said editor further including

an arrangement to edit cardinality of attributes.

4. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, said editor further including

an arrangement to alter an inherited attribute in regard to the inherited attribute being inherited as mandatory or optional.

5. The apparatus as recited in claim 4, said editor further including

an arrangement to edit cardinality of attributes.

6. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, said editor further including

an arrangement to edit pointers associated with an object.

7. The apparatus as recited in claim 6, said editor further including

an arrangement to alter an inherited attribute in regard to the inherited attribute being inherited as mandatory or optional.

8. The apparatus as recited in claim 7, said editor further including

an arrangement to edit cardinality of attributes.

9. A method for facilitating development or modification of custom object-oriented software, said method comprising steps of

selecting an object to answer a task developed by said model based design,

vertically following pointers from said selected objects to a boundary of said object to collect attributes inherited by said object,

following pointers horizontally from said object to collect properties of said object, and

editing said attributes and properties of said object.

10. The method as recited in claim 9, further including

an arrangement to edit cardinality of attributes.

11. The method as recited in claim 9, further including

altering an inherited attribute in regard to the inherited attribute being inherited as mandatory or optional.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, further including

editing cardinality of attributes.

13. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein said selecting step is performed within a library of previously created objects.

14. The method as recited in claim 9, further including editing pointers associated with an object.

15. The method as recited in claim 14, further including

altering an inherited attribute in regard to the inherited attribute being inherited as mandatory or optional.

16. The apparatus as recited in claim 15, further including

editing cardinality of attributes.

17. A method for facilitating development or modification of custom object-oriented software from a model based design, said method comprising steps of

configuring a computer to provide an arrangement to select an object to answer a task developed by said model based design,

configuring a computer to provide a parser to vertically follow pointers from said selected objects to a boundary of said object to collect attributes inherited by said object,

configuring a computer to provide an arrangement to follow pointers horizontally from said object to collect properties of said object, and

configuring a computer to provide an editor to edit said attributes and properties of said object.

18. The method as recited in claim 17, further including

configuring a computer to provide a library of objects for performing respective functions.