Patent ID: 7603380

Claim:
A computer implemented method for model object sharing, comprising: selecting a template object from a template model in a modeling repository, the template model generated by a first modeling tool, the template object comprising a template domain object and a template datatype object; generating a first copy of the template object; converting the first copy to a form compatible with a second modeling tool by combining the template domain object and the template datatype object to at least partially generate a target domain object, the first modeling tool at least partially disparate from the second modeling tool; associating the first copy with the selected template object; automatically updating the first copy based, at least in part, on changes in the associated template object; generating a second copy of the template object; converting the second copy to a form compatible with a third modeling tool; associating the second copy with the selected template object; updating the first copy in a first target model generated by the second modeling tool, based, at least in part, on changes in the template object; and updating the second copy in a second target model generated by the third modeling tool, based, at least in part, on changes in the template object.