METHOD FOR TRANSFORMING INITIAL OBJECT OF INITIAL TYPE INTO FINAL OBJECT OF FINAL TYPE

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To flexibly transform an object of one type into an object of another type. PSOLUTION: Conversion may occur within an extensible serialization engine that serializes, deserializes and transforms objects of various types. The runtime operation of the serialization engine is altered by one or more extension routines that implement the desired customizations or extensions, without requiring replacement of other existing routines. Based on type information, identified for an initial object 240, the object is converted into an intermediate representation which permits runtime modification, including modification of object names, object types and object data. The intermediate representation of the initial object 240 is modified in accordance with one or more extension routines that alter the runtime operation of the serialization engine, and the intermediate representation is converted into a final object 280 of final type. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI