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A method and system for referring to and binding to objects using a moniker object is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a moniker object contains information to identify linked source data and provides methods through which a program can bind to the linked source data. A binding method is provide

A method and system for referring to and binding to objects using a moniker object is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a moniker object contains information to identify linked source data and provides methods through which a program can bind to the linked source data. A binding method is provided that returns an instance of an interface through which the linked source data can be accessed. The moniker object can identify source data that is stored persistently or nonpersistently. In addition, moniker objects can be composed to form a composite moniker object. A composite moniker object is used to identify linked source data that is nested in other data. In a preferred embodiment, the moniker object provides other methods including a reducing method that returns a more efficient representation of the moniker object; equality and hash methods for comparing moniker objects; and inverse, common prefix, and relative-path-to methods for comparing and locating moniker objects from other moniker objects. Several implementations of a moniker object are provided including a file moniker, an item moniker, a generic composite moniker, a pointer moniker, and an anti moniker. Each implementation is a moniker class and has a class identifier that identifies code to manage the moniker class.

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[ We claim:] [1.] A method in a computer system for storing references to moniker objects in a table, each moniker object having a moniker class identifier that identifies moniker code that, when executed, implements the moniker object, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:for eac

[ We claim:] [1.] A method in a computer system for storing references to moniker objects in a table, each moniker object having a moniker class identifier that identifies moniker code that, when executed, implements the moniker object, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:for each moniker object,invoking a hashing function member of the moniker object code to determine a hash value for the moniker object; andstoring a reference to the moniker object in the table in a location computed from the determined hash value,wherein the implementation of the hashing function member of one of the moniker objects is different than the implementation of the hashing function member of another one of the moniker objects.