Patent ID: 6886167

Claim:
In a computer system including an object and at least one invoker, wherein said object is invocable by said at least one invoker, a method of managing said object at run-time, said method comprising: (a) providing multiple, functionally equivalent, instantiated instances of said object, each instance of said multiple instances of said object drawn from common class source code and being a candidate for invocation upon an invocation of said object; (b) receiving, from an invoker that is unaware that there are multiple instances of said object, said invocation of said object, said invocation identifying said object and being indescriptive of said multiple instances of said object, wherein said invocation does not specify a particular one of said multiple instances of said object to be invoked; and (c) invoking, transparent to said invoker, any one instance of said multiple instances of said object in response to said invocation of said object.