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Promotion of features in reusable software component types

  • US 7,096,457 B2
  • Filed: 12/13/2002
  • Issued: 08/22/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • creating a part under composition by aggregating sub-parts, wherein the part under composition is an object oriented program (OOP) class, and wherein each of the sub-parts is an OOP object whose behavior and structure have been defined by an instantiating class from which the OOP object was instantiated, and wherein the instantiating class not a same class as the part under composition, and wherein when a value for a feature of a sub-part is initially hard-coded by the instantiating class and thus is initially non-modifiable;

    promoting the feature, from the sub-part to the part in composition, as a promoted feature, wherein the promoted feature is modifiable and thus is able to utilize a developer selected value for the promoted feature; and

    instantiating an instance of the part under composition using the developer selected value.

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