Patent ID: 7185343

Claim:
A program flow method in a program component system, the program component system comprising a running time system and several components each having a program portion, said method comprising the steps of: a) triggering a call of a called first component of said several components by call information disposed in a docking point of a calling second component of said several components and the following steps that are performed after said called first component has been called and during the execution of the program portion of said called first component: b) acquiring for said called first component, by means of the running time system, first data from said calling second component without any need for programmer-defined interfaces in said calling second component, wherein the source of the first data to be acquired within said calling second component is selected according to a definition of said called first component; and c) disposing, from said called first component, by means of the running time system, second data into said calling second component without any need for programmer-defined interfaces in said calling second component, wherein a target to which said second data is deposited within said calling second component is selected according to a definition of the called first component.