Method, system, and program product for managing adapter association for a data graph of data objects

• US 8,359,298 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2006
• Issued: 01/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Schacher, Ritchard L., Hicks, Matthew J., Merks, Eduardus A. T.
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, THU NGUYET T
• Application Number:
  US11/396,673
• Publication Number:
  US 20070233722A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,486 Days
• Field of Search: 707/705
• US Class Current: 707/705
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9024 Graphs; Linked lists G06F16/9027 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/548 Object oriented; Remote method invocation [RMI] non-remote method invocation G06F9/449

Abstract

The present invention provides a method, system, and program product for managing adapter association for a data graph of data objects. Specifically, under the present invention, a data graph of data objects is generated (e.g., on a server), and then serialized. In performing the serialization, the data graph is translated into bits. In one embodiment, the bits are communicated to a client over a network, and then translated back into the data graph (i.e., deserialized). An adapter is associated with each of the data objects after the data graph is deserialized. This avoids the “overhead” involved with associating and having active adapters during deserialization.

Claims

1. A method for managing adapter association for a data graph of data objects, comprising:

deserializing the data graph of data objects;

associating an adapter with each of the data objects only after the data graph is completely deserialized, the adapter being an adapter for a framework; and

outputting the data objects.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating the data graph; and

serializing the data graph, prior to the deserializing.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the generating comprises generating the data graph on a server, wherein the serializing comprises translating the data graph into bits on the server, and wherein the deserializing comprises translating the bits into the data graph on a client.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising activating the adapters after the associating.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating the adapters using adapter factory descriptors, wherein the adapter framework is an Eclipse Modeling Framework.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising storing a list of the adapter factory descriptors in the data graph, wherein the adapter factory descriptors describe adapter factories to be created after the deserializing.