Patent ReferencesSystem for animating program operation and displaying time-based relationships System for graphically representing operation of object-oriented programs Computer vision system with improved object orientation technique Object management facility for maintaining data in a computer system Interactive method of developing software interfaces Object placement method and apparatus Technique for object orientation detection using a feed-forward neural network Object lifetime control in an object-oriented memory protection mechanism Method of controlling the execution of object-oriented programs Object-oriented framework for menu definition InventorsApplicationNo. 353026 filed on 12/09/1994US Classes:707/10, Distributed or remote access709/220NETWORK COMPUTER CONFIGURINGExaminersPrimary: Black, Thomas G.Assistant: Pham, C. Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 015/76AbstractA distributed program configuration database system is designed for use on a client-server network. The system consists of a plurality of program servers which maintain version information for various program components. A program developer, upon logging into a client terminal on the network, establishes a workspace or project and connects with one of the servers. After connection to the server has been made, a draft of the program configuration is retrieved from the server. The configuration draft may include information for constructing some of the program components and "bridge" information identifying other program servers where additional program components are located. The workspace uses the component information to assemble components and the bridge information to connect to other servers and retrieve the remaining components in order to assemble the complete source code for a program in the workspace. | |