Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Bilal Aslam

Mohammed Parvez Shaikh

Madhur Joshi

Crystal L Hoyer

Carlos Aguilar Mares

Yamini Jagadeesan

Yishai Galatzer

Nitasha Verma

Kristina Olson

Kristina Halfdane

William Benjamin Byrd

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that enable web applications to be identified, and that enable the identified web applications to be published to remote servers. Objects are accessed in storage for a developed web application. A feed is received that includes a plurality of signatures that correspond to a plurality of webapp development applications. A webapp development application used to develop the web application is identified by comparing the signatures to the objects. A web deployment package is downloaded for the identified webapp development application. The downloaded web deployment package is applied to enable the web application to be published to a server, such as by modifying settings and/or applying transformations to the objects that defined by the downloaded web deployment package.

Automatic recognition of web application

A web application may be developed in an environment which has different components than a target environment, so determining component dependencies and identifying which dependencies are met in a given environment can be helpful when deploying the application. Toward that end, test code makes a request that test file(s) be sent from a protected location in the target environment, such as from a randomly-named folder or from another location that is not directly browsable by a user. Received test file(s) and network protocol headers are parsed, and component dependency metadata such as component names and version numbers are extracted. Based on the extracted metadata, information is determined about the target environment's installed component(s). By comparing component dependency(ies) of the program with the identified installed component(s) of the target environment, compatibility of the target environment can then be reported.

Networked program dependency compatibility analysis

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