Computer system to compile non incremental computer source code to execute within incremental type computer system

• US 6,687,896 B1
• Filed: 02/10/1999
• Issued: 02/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Perfect Commerce Holdings, LLC
• Original Assignee: Claudio Nascimento, Eric Zoerner, Robert Royce
• Inventors: Royce, Robert, Zoerner, Eric, Nascimento, Claudio
• Primary Examiner(s): Chaki, Kakali
• Application Number:
  US09/247,700
• Time in Patent Office: 1,819 Days
• Field of Search: 717/5-10, 703/26, 703/27, 712/209, 712/227
• US Class Current: 717/141
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/48 Incremental compilation software reuse G06F8/36

Abstract

A computer system 12 which receives non-incremental computer source code which is created and generated from a non-incremental computer system 14 and which places the received non-incremental source code in a parse tree arrangement, thereby enabling the received source code to be developed, compiled, and/or executed with an incremental computer 16 and to be selectively and communicatively exported to a non-incremental computer system.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

first means for receiving computer source code written in a non-incremental computer language;

second means for translating said computer source code in to an incremental computer language; and

third means for arranging said computer source code in an incremental system format thereby allowing said source code to be operated within an incremental computer system.

2. The computer system of claim 1 wherein said non-incremental computer language is the Java®

computer language.

3. The computer system of claim 1 wherein said third means comprises a scanner and parser arrangement.

4. The computer system of claim 1 wherein said incremental computer system is a Smalltalk™

computer system.

5. A method of computer programming comprising the steps of accepting the source code of a computer program written in a non-incremental computer language;

and formatting said source code in a manner that allows said source code to be modified while said program is being executed.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein said non-incremental computer language is the Java®

computer language.