AN OBJECT ORIENTED FRAMEWORK MECHANISM PROVIDING COMMON OBJECT RELATIONSHIP AND CONTEXT MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE TOOLS

摘要

A framework mechanism for the generic, yet extensible storage, management and retrieval of datafor software tool development. All information manipulated by a tool can be organized into modelobjects of various classes and relationships between those objects. Every model object andrelationship is provided with three attributes or core functions, persistence, lockability and ability tobe observed.