Patent Document ID: 6023578
Application ID: 08853208

Base Claim:
1. A method for generating an object oriented application for an object oriented environment, said object oriented environment comprising a programming model and a data model, said method comprising the steps of: generating a computer program design for said object oriented model application using a modeling tool; and mapping the modeling tool generated computer program design to the data model of said object oriented environment to thereby create metadata in said data model wherein said mapping step comprises defining a first package, wherein said first package partitions the computer program design into at least two parts without requiring reference to model semantics.

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Claim 6:
6. The generating method according to claim 1, wherein said computer program design mapping step comprises the steps of: identifying a class specification, said class specification comprising at least one class, relationships between the at least one class and at least a second class, an inheritance associated with the at least one class, at least one attribute associated with the at least one class and at least one method associated with the at least one class, said class specification being identified by a class name; and mapping the class specification to an interface in the data model in the object oriented environment.