Patent ID: 7631293
Filing Date: 2009-12-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for generating automatically computer program code for implementing custom finder methods in a reusable application component, wherein the reusable application component includes a home interface specifying custom finder methods for finding instances of the reusable application component and wherein the custom finder methods are defined by finder method parameters but wherein queries to be evaluated for implementing the custom finder methods to find instances of the reusable application component in a database are not specified, the method comprising: receiving the home interface as an input; introspecting the home interface to identify the custom finder methods in the home interface; invoking a finder helper class generator for generating source code for a finder helper class for the reusable application component, including generating skeleton structure source code for finder helper class methods for the finder helper class by, for each identified custom finder method: saving the source code for the finder helper class to an output file for use by a programmer for software development.