Patent 7448028 was granted and assigned to SAP on November, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and system for selectively retrieving locally stored runtime objects in an application development environment. According to one embodiment, a generator fetches a requested runtime object from a locally stored set of runtime objects if the locally stored runtime object is valid, and fetches a server stored runtime object if the locally stored runtime object is invalid and the server stored runtime object is valid.