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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2006
Filed:
May. 29, 2002
Nabeel W. Abdallah, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas F. Bitonti, Cary, NC (US);
Hans P. Jerkewitz, Apex, NC (US);
Nabeel W. Abdallah, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas F. Bitonti, Cary, NC (US);
Hans P. Jerkewitz, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is provided for extending a Java archive file to include additional information that describes the contents of the archive as update information. A program is provided for determining differences between an initial file system tree and a final file system tree and encoding those differences into entries in a Java archive file. An extractor class is included in the Java archive file and named as the main class. The Java archive file may be transported to a site that needs a file system update. The Java archive file may be executed in a Java runtime environment to update a target file system. The extractor class is executed to decode and effectuate the difference entries in the archive file.