Patent ID: 6999956
Filing Date: 2006-02-14
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer system comprising at least one computer implemented program, at least one data source, and a mapping system wherein object programming applications are tailored to delegate both the accessing of a data source arid the generation of SQL strings to a runtime library repository wherein the repository comprises a collection of system information and software program libraries, which repository can access the database directly or through a database driver, such as a JDBC driver, without the need to imbed specific database accessing mechanism classes in the application code of an object programming application prior to runtime, wherein: i) the mapping system portion is designed to provide to a system user who is accessing, creating or updating maps, or accessing objects on a system to make data changes related to a particular object and to promulgate the changes to that object as either local or global changes on the computer system, or ii) the mapping system portion provides an interface permitting an authorized user to edit or create the tables, fields, or attributes of a data map for an object as a table format or XML file format without requiring the user to have extensive knowledge of a particular relational database as a source of the data, or extensive knowledge about how to directly access that relational database.