Method and apparatus for enabling agile development of services in cloud computing and traditional environments

• US 9,720,656 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2016
• Issued: 08/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Sivakumar, Gandhi, Abrahams, Faried, Subramanian, Vijayaganesh, Ramesh, Sandeep Patil, Thomas, Lennox Epstein
• Primary Examiner(s): Bodden, Evral E
• Application Number:
  US15/142,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20160239271A1
• Time in Patent Office: 459 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/24 Object-oriented
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/315 Object-oriented languages
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/33 Intelligent editors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming

Abstract

Prepending a name object or setting a type of a software object to a name and prepending a value object to the software object provides inheritance of a name value pattern by the software object to establish particular types or classes of attributes of the software object without modification of the software object itself that is thus strongly typed and accessible by type.

Claims

1. A processor for processing a software object having a desired functionality, said software object comprising, in combination,

a first existing or specially developed software object having a functionality which is less than said desired functionality, said existing or specially developed software object having an attribute with which a type attribute specifying a name is associated or a name object prepended to said existing or specially developed software object setting a type of attribute of said existing or specially developed software object by inheritance as a modification of said first existing or specially developed software object corresponding to said desired functionality, and

a value object prepended to said first existing or specially developed software object, whereby said name specified by said type attribute or said name object and said value of said value object form a name value pattern that is inherited by said existing or specially developed software object to function as an additional attribute of said existing or specially developed software object to provide additional functionality corresponding to a portion of said desired functionality not provided by said first existing or specially developed software object without adding an additional attribute to said existing or specially developed software object.

2. The software object as recited in claim 1 wherein additional details of attributes of said software object are specified by comma separated values.

3. The software object as recited in claim 1 including a further name object and a further value object associated with another attribute of said existing or specially developed software object, wherein said another attribute is different from an attribute with which said name object and said value object are associated.

4. A method of developing customized software, said method comprising steps of

mapping a task to be performed by said customized software to an existing or specially developed software object,

editing said existing or specially developed software object, wherein said editing step associates a type attribute specifying a name to an attribute of said existing or specially developed software object, or prepends a name object specifying a name to said existing or specially developed software object setting a type of attribute of said existing or specially developed software object, and wherein said editing step further provides prepending a value object specifying a value to said existing or specially developed software object or said name object, whereby said name specified by said type attribute or said name object and said value of said value object form a name value pattern that is inherited by said existing or specially developed software object to function as an additional attribute of said existing or specially developed software object without adding an additional attribute to said existing or specially developed software object.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, including a further step of

editing a generic name object.

6. The method as recited in claim 4, including a further step of

providing additional details of attributes through comma separated values.

7. The method as recit4ed in claim 4, including a further step of

editing a type name of an attribute.

8. The method as recited in claim 4, including a further step of

editing a generic value object.

9. The method as recited in claim 4, including a further step of

editing attributes of said software object.

10. The method as recited in claim 4, including a further step of

storing said software object with said name object and value object prepended to said software object as a portion of a software program.

11. The method as recited in claim 4, including further steps of

prepending another name object to said software object, wherein said another name object is of the same type or class as said name object, and

prepending another value object to said software object, wherein said another value object is of a same type or class as said value object whereby another name value pattern is inherited by said software object.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein said another name object and said another value object are associated with an attribute of said software object that is different from an attribute with which said name object and said value object are associated.