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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 17, 1998
Donald P Levine, Glendale, AZ (US);
Bull HN Information Systems Inc., Billerica, MA (US);
Abstract
A configuration system and method uses a program device containing configuration software for configuring applications to be executed by a processing system through the use of externally provided values corresponding to environment variables that are used to define an execution environment for all of the applications to be executed by the system. The configuration system is used to establish a plurality of configuration file sources to be used in configuring applications wherein the files define a plurality of different operational levels. Each configuration file stores the values representative of a corresponding number of configurable items defining the environment for executing the applications. The values of each level has a pre-established override capability over the values of other levels. In response to application calls, the configuration system processes the configuration item values stored in corresponding locations of the plurality of configuration files according to the pre-established override capability of the different operational levels. The final values for the number of configuration items produced by such processing are then returned to the calling application for use during execution.