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Model augmentation in a model-driven application development environment

  • US 9,513,879 B2
  • Filed: 12/27/2013
  • Issued: 12/06/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • configuring a principal model to facilitate automatic generation of at least one resource for use by a computer-executable application, where the principal model comprises a plurality of classes, references, attributes, and associations between any of the classes;

    identifying at least one model item required for a task that is absent from the principal model;

    instantiating the absent model item in a decoration model that operates with the principal model to augment operational functionality of the principal model, where the decoration model comprises a class, a reference, and an attribute for any corresponding one of the plurality of classes, references, and attributes of the principal model, where a created reference is associated with a key that contains information about a source attribute and a target attribute of the key in the decoration model; and

    storing both of the models within a memory.

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