US Patent:
20060101429, May 11, 2006
Inventors:
John Osborne - San Francisco CA, US
Jeffrey Miller - Tiburon CA, US
Alexander Aickin - San Francisco CA, US
Raja Mani - Union City CA, US
Adrian McDermott - San Francisco CA, US
David Vydra - Oakland CA, US
International Classification:
G06F 9/45
Abstract:
A method, computer program product, and apparatus comprise providing a Java developer kit class library comprising first Java classes; providing a Java Open Foundation class library comprising second Java classes each containing one or more of the first Java classes; providing a .NET SDK class library comprising .NET classes; providing a .NET language Open Foundation class library comprising first .NET language classes each containing one or more of the NET classes; wherein each of the .NET language classes presents the same method signature as one of the second Java classes; receiving Java source code defining third Java classes, first calls to the first Java classes, and second calls to the second Java classes; translating the third Java classes into second .NET language classes; and translating the first calls to calls into the .NET SDK class library without modifying the second calls.