International Business Machines Corporation

David W Dykstal

Devon D Snyder

Phil S Coulthard

Mike Stephen Fulton

Kushal Sayeed Munir

George D Timms, Jr

Eric V Simpson

Edward Alan Fishel

Dave K McKnight

Samuel R Shi

Rick L Sawyer

Michael A Temple

George Voutsinas

A method implemented by a processor and a system develop a software project targeting one or more remote systems. The method includes generating a project on a local system, which includes receiving user input through a user interface. The project includes one or more source files. The method also includes generating one or more remote contexts corresponding to the one or more remote systems.

Multi-context remote development

Data is now able to be transferred back and forth between computer systems which have disparate file systems, e.g., between a computer having a hierarchical file system and a computer having a nonhierarchical file system. The differences, however, are not limited to the file storage system. Data may now be transferred across different platforms, different human and computer languages, different binary codes, etc. From one computer system the associated metadata is stored in a interpretable format on the second computer system so that when data and its associated metadata are transferred, the second computer system can interpret the transferred data. Data transfer can be accomplished in both directions. Thus, a tool writer or a software developer using a integrated development environment, such as Eclipse, on a Linux workstation with its hierarchical file system may download source files and other resources from an iSeries computer server with its OS/400 nonhierarchical file system, modify the resources, and then put them back onto the iSeries machine for use on the iSeries. The metadata of the source file and other resources are stored in a .properties file which, if in XML format, supports the transfer of resources across the Internet.

Transferring data and storing metadata across a network

Each panel or display screen of data, is defined by a title and the tagged description of the objects, such as instruction lines, data entry lines, menu areas and command lines. Each of these objects may include other objects, described in the same syntax. Panel definitions are joined in a source file to form a panel group. Objects can be shared by all panels.

Panel definition language for computer display

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David W Dykstal