System and method for automatically generating code templates for communication via a predefined communication interface

• US 7,020,867 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2002
• Issued: 03/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: S2 Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: S2 Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Underseth, Mark, Howell, Robert, Valois, Hugues
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Ted T.
• Application Number:
  US10/104,997
• Publication Number:
  US 20020188595A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,467 Days
• Field of Search: 717100-119, 717127-137, 717/121, 719328-330, 719/314
• US Class Current: 717/106
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3636 by tracing the execution of the program
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/542 Intercept
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/546 Xcast
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/547 Messaging middleware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/546 Message passing systems or structures, e.g. queues
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A system and method for providing seamless communication with threads executing on an embedded computer. Using a DAT system, a programmer can test the communication interfaces of a thread via either a scripting program, any COM-compliant program, or a graphical test utility. The DAT system automatically formats a block of data that is transmitted between the embedded computer and a host computer and accounts for machine specific enumeration sizes, machine specific pointer sizes, machine specific structure alignment boundaries, machine specific integer sizes, and machine specific byte ordering.

Claims

1. A method of generating code in an electronic device, the method comprising:

reading an interface definition file;

identifying at least one remote function call interface in the interface definition file;

in the electronic device, automatically generating a first code for execution on a first platform, wherein a first program executing the first code communicates with a second program executing a second code via a messaging interface;

in the electronic device, automatically generating a second code for execution on a second platform, wherein the generated second code invokes a routine via the remote function call interface; and

providing code in the electronic device that is configured to automatically modify the byte order or the data type size of data that is transmitted via the messaging interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first generated code includes a function that has a name that is the same as the function.

3. A system for generating code in an electronic device, the system comprising:

a code generator, in an electronic device, configured to read an interface definition file, wherein the code generator is configured to identify at least one remote function call interface in the interface definition file, wherein the code generator is configured to automatically generate a first code for execution on a first platform, wherein a first program executing the first code communicates with a second program executing a second code via a messaging interface, wherein the code generator is configured to automatically generate second code for execution on a second platform, and wherein the generated second code invokes a routine via the remote function call interface, the code generator being configured to automatically modify the byte order or the data type size of data that is transmitted via the messaging interface.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the first generated code includes a function that has a name that is the same as the function.