Patent ID: 6556220
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method in an object-oriented environment for processing data stored in a self-describing software object, said software object including data and methods that are executable by said object-oriented environment, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:identifying the contents of the self-describing object; displaying the contents of the self-describing object in a graphical user interface; displaying graphical controls, wherein the graphical controls are used to manipulate the contents of the self-describing object; modifying the contents of the self-describing object in response to user input to graphical controls in the graphical user interface; constructing a new self-describing object in response to user input to graphical controls in the graphical user interface; and wherein primitive types: null, string, long, ulong (unsigned long), short, ushort (unsigned short), float, double, char, and octet are displayed directly in text boxes in the graphical user interface.