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Method and system for automatically adding generic change log to legacy application

US8359568B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Juergen Baumann · Bonn, DE
Friedrich Beichter · Altbach, DE
Jochen Hoffman · Colchester, US
Thomas Pohl · Holzgerlingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 22, 2008
Grant date	Jan 22, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 16, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F8/71
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A data management method includes accessing data objects in an application written in C/C++ for change-logging and multi-step redo/undo, wherein the data objects are organized in a binary format and are devoid of self-describing information, and wherein the accessing the data objects is structured in a plurality of layers, the plurality of layers including a semantic layer, a change log layer, and a repository layer, dynamically analyzing the data objects to recognize all changes made by any of a plurality of users for all data types used by the application, the dynamically analyzing the data including using semantic analysis to track changes and identifying any changes in any of the data objects, and using generated wrapper classes to convert between C/C++ data structures and generic data format, wherein the wrapper classes are generated from developer provided annotations with C/C++ data structure declarations.

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