Patent ID: 6438744
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computerize system comprising:an operating system providing a first interface structured according to a first object model for controlling a first component structured according to the first object model and a second interface structured according to a second object model for controlling a second component structured according to the second object model, said first interface and said second interface each having methods and properties; at least one client program utilizing said first interface to invoke a first method on the first component at run-time but instead invoking a second method on the second componet; a runtime queriable component defined in the second object model; and a data structure representing a mapping from methods and properties of said first interface to methods and properties of said second interface, said mapping data structure generated at least in part with a query made on the runtime queriable component; wherein the first object model is different from the second object model.