Appeal 2007-0279
Application 10/042,079
The Examiner rejects the pending claims as follows:
A. Claims 1, 7, 10 through 14, 20, 23 through 27, 33, and 36 through 39
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 (e) as being anticipated by Krishna.
B. Claims 2, 4 through 6, 8, 9, 15, 17 through 19, 21, 22, 28, 30 through
32, 34, and 35 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (a) as being
unpatentable over the combination of Krishna and Green.
C. Claims 3, 16, and 29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (a) as being
unpatentable over the combination of Krishna, Green and Evans.
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Lewis US 5,590,331 Dec. 31, 1996
Lee US 2002/0147763 A1 Oct. 10, 2002
(filed Oct. 10, 2000)
Krishna US 2003/0051233 A1 Mar. 13, 2003
(filed Sept. 13, 2001)
Evans US 6,836,884 B1 Dec. 28, 2004
(filed Jun. 4, 2001)
Dale Green, Trail: The Reflection API, The Java Tutorial (Nov. 27, 1999),
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/, 1-36.
Independent claim 1 is illustrative and representative of the
Appellant’s invention. It reads as follows:
1. A method in a data processing system for generating a generic
compilation interface, from a first object-oriented software package, said
method comprising the steps of:
identifying all public classes included in said first object-oriented
software package;
for each of said public classes, identifying all public entities included
in each of said public classes;
2
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