Abstract
US Patent Number 2008/0228812 A1
A system and method for providing ontology objects for use in a metamodeling environment is disclosed herein. The method comprises (a) providing a framework for creating a metamodel, wherein the metamodel comprises one or more entities, relationships, and semantics and the framework accepts input from a user to create the entities, relationships, and semantics, (b) generating ontology objects, wherein the ontology objects comprise source code for one or more classes, and wherein each class corresponds to one of the entities; and (c) compiling the source code. Further, the method may comprise detecting that a change has been made to the metamodel, updating the ontology objects to reflect the change to the metamodel, wherein updating the ontology objects comprises generating new source code for one or more classes; and compiling the new source code.