Recovery and representation of object interaction in an object oriented program
US7426716B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 11, 2003 |
| Grant date | Sep 16, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 24, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F8/75
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A process and system are provided for representing object interactions, by means of a sequence diagram or the like, wherein the object interactions are recovered from source code written in Java or other object-oriented programming language. Initially, a Method Information Parser determines the respective methods declared inside the source code and extracts their names. A Method Detail Parser then extracts the method calls to other objects within a method, to resolve each complex method call into multiple lines of single method calls. Information derived from the multiple lines of single method calls is then used to generate the sequence diagram.
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