Patent Document ID: 6083276
Application ID: 09096848

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for creating and configuring a component-based application, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an application description file containing a definition of a component-based application; generating, in a memory, a representation of a parse tree based on the application description file, the parse tree comprising at least one leaf; for each of a first subset of the leaves, mapping the leaf to a target class; and instantiating a component associated with the target class; and for at least a subset of the instantiated components, invoking at least one method of the component to launch the application.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the instantiating step comprises the steps of: creating an element processor for the element, the element processor being associated with the target class; and creating an uninitialized instance of the target class.