公开(公告)号：CA2293114A1

公开(公告)日：2001-06-23

申请号：CA2293114

申请日：1999-12-23

Applicant: IBM CANADA

Inventor： POPESCU VALENTINA ,  SLUIMAN HARM ,  BREALEY CHRISTOPHER L

IPC: G06F9/44 ,  G11B23/00

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products of the invention are provided for representing a data mapping of an object reference, namely graphically representing an object reference to a referent object by a referring object including associated da ta mapping between attributes of the objects and the corresponding data of the objects. Representing an object reference to a referent object in a computer environment is provided that includes providing a graphical tree of attributes of a referring object in a user interface and in the tree an object reference attribute corresponding to the object reference is included, the object object referen ce attribute comprising key part(s) corresponding to an attribute of the referent object that forms part of the key for the referent object.