Patent ID: 7240330

Claim:
A system for rapid generation of software applications from a describing ontology as expressed in an ontology definition language comprising the following: a) a processor; b) one or more storage devices accessible from said processor for storing and retrieving data and to provide persistent storage; c) a run-time discoverable and alterable types system describing arbitrary binary structures, their constituent fields, and relationships between them; d) a memory system for instantiating and manipulating arbitrary collections of said data and its interrelations described using said types system, as obtained from said persistent storage in said one or more storage devices; e) an ontology description language, or ODL, wherein said ODL is derived by extensions to a standard computer programming base language as implemented using said types system; f) a collections system wherein a plurality of data containers can be registered with said collections system via a plug-in registry; g) a database creation engine wherein said database creation engine uses specifications given in said ODL to automatically generate and handle one or more persistent storage tables necessary in said data containers that have been registered with said collections system; and h) a user interface creation engine, wherein said user interface creation engine uses said ODL to automatically generate a user interface that permits display, interaction with, and querying of said data residing in said persistent storage in said one or more storage devices.