Computing system and method to perform compile-time extension for world wide web application

• US 7,853,933 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2001
• Issued: 12/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siebel Systems Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Mukundan, Anil, Coker, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Kang; Insun
• Application Number:
  US09/970,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20070226709A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,363 Days
• Field of Search: 717116-140, 717/100, 717/108, 717/174, 707/100, 707/103.R, 707/513, 709/219, 709/230, 709/217, 709/203, 719328-332, 719/315, 719/316, 715/805
• US Class Current: 717/136
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/41 Compilation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for extending a web-based application class by performing a compile-time extension that is communicated from a client device, having a compiler implemented thereon, to a server device via a remote procedure call.

Claims

1. A computing system comprising:

a processor configured to execute software to manage a first plurality of objects;

an interface, wherein

the interface is configured to receive a run-time extension from a client processing system,

the run-time extension is communicated via a remote procedure call from the client processing system;

the client processing system manages a second plurality of objects that correspond to the first plurality of objects;

the second plurality of objects comprises a first object and a second object on the client processing system;

the first is a member of an application class;

the second object is a member of the application class;

the run-time extension modifies, using a script coupled to the first object when the first object is instantiated, the first object on the client processing system without modifying the second object on the client processing system; and

a compiler, wherein

the compiler is configured to compile the run-time extension on the processor to modify a base behavior of the class.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the run-time extension is inherited by every object of the class.

3. The computing system of claim 1, further comprising a repository coupled to the compiler, wherein the repository includes a source code for the run-time extension.

4. The computing system of claim 1, further comprising:

an external application coupled to a web-based application object of the class, wherein

a compile-time extension is generated by the compiler compiling the run-time extension, and

the compile-time extension is transparent to the external application.

5. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the second plurality of objects mimics functionalities of the first plurality of objects.

6. The computing system of claim 5, wherein the external application includes an object oriented programming control window.

7. The computing system of claim 4, wherein:

the compiler is configured to extend the class by virtue of being further configured to generate a compile-time extension of the class; and

the computing system is configured to execute the compile-time extension.

8. The computing system of claim 1, wherein:

the client processing system interface is comprised in a server processing system; and

the client processing system is configured to communicate the run-time extension to the server processing system via the remote procedure call.

9. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the second plurality of objects mirrors the first plurality of objects.

10. A method comprising:

receiving a run-time extension from a client device via a remote procedure call, wherein;

the run-time extension is received through a user interface on the client device and adds a functionality to an application class describes a first plurality of objects instantiated on a server and a second plurality of objects instantiated on the client device,

the client device manages the second plurality of objects,

the second plurality of objects correspond to the first plurality of objects,

the second plurality of objects comprises;

a first object and a second object;

the run-time extension modifies, using a script coupled to the first object when the first object is instantiated, the first object on the client device without modifying the second object on the client device; and

modifying and extending the class by compiling the run-time extension on the server.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the run-time extension is inherited by every object of the class.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

storing a source code for the run-time extension in a repository.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the second plurality of objects mimics functionalities of the first plurality of objects.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

coupling an external application to a web-based application object of the class, wherein

a compile-time extension is generated by the compiling the run-time extension, and

the compile-time extension is transparent to the external application.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the second plurality of objects reference business components, the business components mediate access from the server to underlying tables accessible to the server, and the run-time extension adds a functionality relating to interaction with the underlying tables.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the external application includes an object oriented programming control window.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the extending the class comprises:

executing a compile-time extension generated by the compiling.

18. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

transmitting the run-time extension from the client device to a server device via the remote procedure call.

19. The method of claim 10, wherein the second plurality of objects mirrors the first plurality of objects.

20. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions, wherein the set of instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

receiving a run-time extension from a client device via a remote procedure call, wherein;

the run-time extension is received through a user interface on the client device and adds a functionality to an application class describes a first plurality of objects instantiated on a server and a second plurality of objects instantiated on the client device,

the client device manages the second plurality of objects,

the second plurality of objects correspond to the first plurality of objects,

the second plurality of objects comprises;

a first object and a second object;

the run-time extension modifies, using a script coupled to the first object when the first object is instantiated, the first object on the client device without modifying the second object on the client device; and

modifying and extending the class by compiling the run-time extension on the server.

21. The medium of claim 20, wherein the run-time extension is inherited by every object of the class.

22. The medium of claim 20, wherein the method further comprises:

storing a source code for the run-time extension in a repository.

23. The medium of claim 22, wherein the method further comprises:

writing the source code in the C programming language.

24. The medium of claim 20, wherein the method further comprises:

coupling an external application to a web-based application object of the class, wherein

a compile-time extension is generated by the compiling the run-time extension, and

the compile-time extension is transparent to the external application.

25. The medium of claim 20, wherein the second plurality of objects mimics functionalities of the first plurality of objects.

26. The medium of claim 24, wherein the external application includes an object oriented programming control window.

27. The medium of claim 20, wherein the method further comprises:

executing a compile-time extension generated by the compiling.

28. A system comprising:

a server comprising a processor;

means for receiving a run-time extension from a client device via a remote procedure call, wherein;

the run-time extension is received through a user interface on the client device and adds a functionality to an application class describes a first plurality of objects instantiated on a server and a second plurality of objects instantiated on the client device,

the client device manages the second plurality of objects,

the second plurality of objects correspond to the first plurality of objects,

the second plurality of objects comprises;

a first object and a second object;

the run-time extension modifies, using a script coupled to the first object when the first object is instantiated, the first object on the client device without modifying the second object on the client device; and

means for modifying and extending the class by compiling the run-time extension on the processor.

29. The system of claim 28, wherein the run-time extension is inherited by every object of the class.

30. The system of claim 28, further comprising:

means for storing a source code for the run-time extension in a repository.

31. The system of claim 28, further comprising:

means for coupling an external application to a web-based application object of the class, wherein the compile-time extension is transparent to the external application, wherein the external application includes a user interface and an object oriented programming control window.

32. The system of claim 28, wherein the second plurality of objects mimics functionalities of the first plurality of objects.