Patent ID: 7055131

Claim:
A method in a data processing system, wherein the data processing system comprises source code and the source code comprises a plurality of lines, the method comprising the steps of: displaying simultaneously a graphical and a textual representation of the source code, wherein the graphical and the textual representations of the source code is generated from a language-neutral representation of the source code that includes a data structure having a source code interface (SCI) model, an SCI package, an SCI class and an SCI member, wherein the language-neutral representation of the source code is stored in a non-repository transient meta model, and wherein the graphical representation has portions that correspond to the lines; initiating an automated process that processes each of the lines; and while the automated process processes each of the lines, displaying the portion of the graphical representation that corresponds to the line in a visually distinctive manner such that it visually appears that progression of the automated process is animated.