Patent ID: 9569181
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A system to support an object-oriented scripting tool, comprising: one or more microprocessors; a parser, running on the one or more microprocessors, that operates to parse a document that specifies a software class in a scripting language using a plurality of tags that are defined in a markup language environment, wherein the plurality of tags are configured to define at least one method of the software class, check whether a software object is an instance of the software class, assign a reference value to the software class, and a type definition table that includes a plurality of type definitions, wherein the type definition table operates to use a tag name of a said tag as a key that is associated with a type definition; and an instance pool that operates to store one or more instances of the software class for the object-oriented scripting tool.