International Business Machines Corporation

Charles S Gauthier

John Edward Petri

David Gerald Herbeck

Jay Daniel Toogood

Kevin Glen Minard

Michael J Branson

Brian L Peterson

David Gerard Herbeck

Christopher Wicher

Luis Benici Casco-Arias

Wesley Powers

Thomas Dean Christopherson

William L Bliss, Jr

Terry D Hardin

Stephen Biondi

Katherine A Imming

Gary R Summer

An information technology portfolio is managed using assessments that are based on a set of criteria. Each of the criteria may have one or more attributes, and may be different in priority from one another. The criteria are preferably directed toward evaluating, ensuring, and/or improving acceptance of the products in the portfolio by their target marketplace or market segment. Assessments are performed, using the criteria and attributes, and results of these assessments may be used when making various decisions regarding the products in the portfolio.

Information technology portfolio management

Method, system, and article of manufacture for a content management system (CMS) to bind a data object (typically, an XML document) to an associated configuration set (or sets) are disclosed. The configuration set may reference a set of configuration files such as XML schemas/DTDs, style sheets, CMS processing rules, and the like. The CMS may store bindings between a data object and a given configuration set in a CMS repository.

Content management via configuration set relationships in a content management system

In an embodiment, an upgrade rule associated with a configuration set is found, and a document associated with the upgrade rule is found. The configuration set includes a schema and an upgrade transformation, and the upgrade transformation specifies a change that was made to the schema. The document includes a lifecycle state and an element. If the upgrade rule indicates an automatic upgrade, then a mutability rule associated with the lifecycle state of the document is found and a decision is made whether the mutability rule allows the document to be changed. If the mutability rule allows the document to be changed, the element in the document is changed to include the change specified by the upgrade transformation at a time specified by the upgrade rule. If the mutability rule prevents the document from being changed, a new document is created with an initial lifecycle state, the document is copied to new document, and the element is changed in the new document to include the change specified by the upgrade transformation.

Changing documents to include changes made to schemas

Method, system, and article of manufacture for assembling a compound document according to a collection of domain-specific rules. For example, a content management system (CMS) may be configured to process the domain-specific compound document according to domain-specific schema and rules (e.g., an XML schema and DTD), while at the same time, maintaining the compound document in a generic form according to a generic schema for a compound document format used by the CMS.

Method and system for compound document assembly with domain-specific rules processing and generic schema mapping

The preferred embodiment of the present invention an object oriented wizard creation mechanism provides an environment and set of facilities for creating and modifying wizards. The preferred embodiment wizard creation mechanism provides a WizardWizard mechanism for creating the skeleton of new wizard, a WizardDesigner mechanism for specializing and WizardMetaDataManager mechanism for persisting and retrieving created wizards. The WizardWizard guides the developer through a predetermined series of steps that are required to define a the basic components of a new wizard. The WizardDesigner takes these basic components and guides the developer through a specialization process that further customizes and defines the new wizard. In the preferred embodiment, the WizardWizard and the WizardDesigner create and specialize the target wizard from a component based Wizard framework. The use of the component based Wizard framework with the WizardWizard and WizardDesigner provide a customizable and extensible wizard creation solution to that has utmost functionality and flexibility to the users and developers.

Component based designer for modifying and specializing wizards

An object oriented framework mechanism for customization of object oriented frameworks provides an infrastructure that embodies the steps necessary to customize a selected object oriented framework (referred to herein as an &ldquo;input framework&rdquo;). Combining core functions provided by the framework with extensions provided by the framework consumer (i.e., user), results in a framework customization environment. The architecture of the framework allows a user to determine the conditions and parameters that apply to the specific framework customization environment while allowing the user to interact with the framework using an interface that is consistent regardless of the specific combination of parameters specified by the user. The extensible functions allow new framework customization environments to be easily implemented using the framework. The framework thus allows a common programming interface for generating many different framework customization environments and also provides a substantially common user interface for customizing any input framework. An input framework is selected, and a subset of the extension points for the selected framework are selected for customizing the input framework. Each extension point generates one or more extensions, which are added to the customized framework. The customized framework may then be saved, and may be used to generate a customized application.

Object oriented framework mechanism for customization of object oriented frameworks

Component based wizard for creating wizards

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

Charles S Gauthier