A Patent for method of providing stand-in objects

Mark Mayfield markleem at satx.rr.com
Tue Oct 11 01:29:27 UTC 2005


Check this out...

http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/apple_granted_patent_for_method_of_providing_stand_in_objects/

Apple's patent provides a method for delaying the instantiation of an
object in an object-oriented environment. Instead of creating an actual
object, a stand-in object is created. When an actual object is
instantiated, a description is referenced to locate the data from a data
source that is used to populate the actual object.



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